Sweet Animal from Desert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fennec_fox

The Fennec Fox live in Northern Africa, we can find the Fennec Fox in the Sahara Desert, the Sinai Peninsula and the Arabian Peninsula. This animal usually include in your diet lizards, birds and bird eggs, rodents and vegetation such as berries. When we look the appearance the Fennec Fox it is easy deduce that this animal belongs to the Canidae Family ( This family include foxes, wolves, coyotes and dogs ). But the Fennec Fox is the smallest of the Canidae Family, the averages about 15 inches in lenght, and it can weigh 3 to 3.5 pounds.

 Look the large ears again the Fennec Fox, can you imagine that this animal use his large ears to keep it cool and  also enable it to hear preys in the desert, even under the ground.

One of the most famous habits the Fennec Fox to survive in a desert is dig a burrow underground and sleep there during the hot days. Usually Fennec Foxes will have of  2-5 young.

How do you think it is possible for this animal survive with so little water ? The Fennec Fox is able to live without free water, because his kidneys are adapted to restrict water loss. They also know how to absorb water through food consumption. The Fennec Fox has some predators like varieties of eagle owl, caracals, jackals, striped hyenas and the saluki. Unfortunately, some people use Fennec Fox like a domestic dog, it is not good because this fact contributes with the extinction of this sweet animal.