Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952. Located just west of Tucson, Arizona, it features two miles (3.2 km) of walking paths traversing 21 acres of desert landscape. It is one of the most visited attractions in Southern Arizona.
A cougar at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. This image shows the natural surroundings created for the animal enclosures.
Sonoran Desert Toad, or Colorado River Toad, at the museum
A coyote sleeping on a rock at the Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona
A Costa's Hummingbird feeding on a flower in the Hummingbird Aviary
The Sonoran Desert is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States. It is the hottest desert in both Mexico and the United States. It has an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi).
Saguaro National Park in Arizona
The Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona during winter.
Velvet mesquite (Prosopis velutina)
Washingtonia filifera in Anza Borrego Desert State Park
