Desert Fairies and Kangaroo Rats coloring pages

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Coriander the Desert Fairy...

Coriander the Desert Fairy

(with a Kangaroo Rat)

In today's new drawing we see Coriander.  She is a Desert Fairy.  As such, she is friendly with the desert wildlife.  She especially is friendly with the Kangaroo rats.  She, like all Fairies, can transform to mortal size, but she prefers to stay the diminutive size of a Fairy.  She manages the desert in her part of the world.  She is a brilliant manager and caretaker of the desert. 

Coriander is named after the herb Coriander.  It is an herb that is native to the warmer parts of the old world and in the United States of America, we call it cilantro.  We call the seeds coriander.  The funny thing about coriander is that some of us love it and some people, maybe those from colder climates, can't stand it.  My wife is of Norwegian and German and English ancestry and she hates cilantro.  She is among those who have a gene that makes them taste the aldehydes in the leaves. 

So to ME cilantro or coriander tastes lemony.  To my wife, those aldehydes taste like dish soap.  In fact, aldehydes are found in dish soap.  Basically, I don't have the gene to taste the aldehydes in coriander or cilantro.  What is funny is that one of our daughters is fine with cilantro and the other hates it.  

Now, about kangaroo rats. . . There are 20  species of kangaroo rats.  They are native to Western North America.  They are a cool little rodent that evolved to hop like a kangaroo.  They are nocturnal so they are active at night.  They get all the water they need from the seeds that they eat.  These little rodents are very small.  They weigh only around 2.5-6 oz. or about 70-170 grams.  A gram is about the weight or mass of a standard paperclip.  As small as kangaroo rats are, they are incredible jumpers.  They can jump up to 6 feet or around 2 meters in a single jump. Their tail is longer than the body and head of the rest of the animal.  (I probably should have drawn the tail longer in this new picture.)  

Below are some other (older) drawings of Desert Fairies and drawings with kangaroo rat(s). 

Desert Fairy with Kangaroo Rat

Desert Fairy

(The type of cacti in this drawing shows that this is the U.S. state of Arizona.)

Fairy with Squirrel

(You may not think that this is a desert picture, but here in Utah we 

have a type of shrub that is a low growing type of Oak Tree called

a Gambel's Oak.  Of course this tree tends to grow by rivers and

up in the mountains more than out in the desert valleys, but it 

DOES live here in our very dry state.  In fact, Utah is

the second driest state in the United States of America.)

Kangaroo Rat realistic

Kangaroo Rat in the Desert

(cartoon drawing)

These are Kangaroo Rat tracks at Coral Pink Sand Dunes in Southern Utah.