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.

Geomar,
ReplyDeleteNice paragraph and very cute picture.