The Sonoran Desert is a big place, taking up most of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, part of southern California, and a big chunk of Baja California. It's a place where pigs aren't pigs, where toads spring miraculously from rain-pounded soil, where some plants live 9,000 years of more, where landscapes are pastels but sunsets are beyond Kodachrome. It's a place that amazes the senses and leaves you with a head spilling over with questions. And that's where this book fits in. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Book of Answers gives detailed answers to the questions that the staff at the Desert Museum are most often asked. So whether you're an armchair explorer curious about the desert's many "exotic: plants and animals, or a long-time resident trying to negotiate a truce with a persistent packrat or a woodpecker percussionist, settle back and enjoy your journey of discovery. You're certain to learn a thing or two that will change forever the way you look at desert life. - Back cover.