The Guarij o are intimately tied to the land. The program features ethnobotanist David Yetman from the University of Arizona's Southwest Center. Also, view artifacts from the Arizona State Museum of different items made of Mesquite highlighting the cultural and historical uses of Mesquite by the Tohono O'odham and other tribes. Their cinematic relationship is simply a figment of the Hollywood imagination. Learn the real story of these two desert dwellers in this episode.
Coyotes are opportunists and survivors, doing well in any environment.
Although wild, both the coyote and roadrunner have adapted to human interaction in order to survive. Coyotes can hunt as well as most predators, but will just as easily grab a meal from human garbage or scavenge a roadkill snack. The program clears up some misconceptions about two of the desert's most famous inhabitants. From a mineralogical perspective, Kartchner Caverns is one of the top ten caves in the world. The Salton Sea - Take a look at the geological past and present of the Salton Sea, an ancient seabed.