A richer association containing Barbary fig and date palm is still found along the wadis, however. The animal life of the northern mountains includes wild mouflons, Barbary deer, wild boars, and Barbary apes. A multitude of migratory birds pass through the country, including storks and flamingos. In the Sahara gazelles, fennecs, hyenas, and jackals can be found together with many smaller mammals, such as gerbils and desert hare. Insect life is abundant and is most spectacularly manifested in the region's periodic outbreaks of massive locust swarms.
Scorpions are common in the arid and semiarid regions.