A Tour of important wildlife locations around the UAE The UAE is home to a wide diversity of wildlife and plants. This tour takes you around the country to various habitats, ranging from the high dune...

Fish Pelagic Fish Demersal Fish The Intertidal The Shallows Khor Kalba Species Listing Marine Mammals Overview Whales and Dolphins Baleen Whales Toothed Whales and Dolphins Dugong Marine Reptiles Sea ...

A Tour of important wildlife locations around the UAE The UAE is home to a wide diversity of wildlife and plants. This tour takes you around the country to various habitats, ranging from the high dune...

False cobra (Malpolon moilensis ) Also mildly toxic and harmless to man is the false cobra (Malpolon moilensis ). Thicker bodied than the sand snake it favours similar habitats and the same food speci...

Diadem snake (Spalerosophis diadema ) Certainly one of the prettiest serpents is the diadem snake (Spalerosophis diadema ). It is boldly marked with large dark spots on a creamy-beige background. Feed...

Spiny-tailed lizard (Uromastix microlepis) Can grow to a length of 65 cms and usually lives in loose colonies. There is rarely one burrow on its own but usually several, at some 20 to 50 m distance fr...

Terrapins There is the caspian terrapin (Mauremys caspica ) in the Arabian Peninsula, and in the UAE it is only in Wadi Ishi that these animals have been seen in the artificial lake created by the dam...

Wadi racer (Coluber rhodorachis ) The wadi racer (Coluber rhodorachis ) is similar to the sand snake in appearance, but grows only to 130 cms. It has a long and slender body with a very long tail and ...

Geckos Various species of nocturnal geckos occur in the loose sands of the dunes and sandy plains. Stenodactylus arabicus, S. doriae and S. leptocosymbotis are all very similar and need an expert eye ...

Cat snake (Telescopus dhara ) The last of the ‘rear-fanged’ snakes found here is the cat snake (Telescopus dhara ). Growing to 95 cms it is the smallest of the three mildly toxic snakes re...