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The fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) is a small crepuscular fox native to the deserts of North Africa, ranging from Western Sahara and Mauritania to the Sinai Peninsula. [1] Its most distinctive feature is its unusually large ears, which serve to dissipate heat and listen for underground prey. The fennec is the smallest fox species.
Juvenile red foxes are known as kits. Males are called tods or dogs, females are called vixens, and young are known as cubs or kits. [14] Although the Arctic fox has a small native population in northern Scandinavia, and while the corsac fox's range extends into European Russia, the red fox is the only fox native to Western Europe, and so is simply called "the fox" in colloquial British English.
Bat-eared fox at Masai Mara National Reserve. The bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis) is a species of fox found on the African savanna. It is the only extant species of the genus Otocyon and an ancient canid species. Fossil records indicate this canid first appeared during the middle Pleistocene. There are two separate populations of the bat ...
Two baby bat-eared foxes born in a zoo in Ohio are stealing hearts on the internet. The two fox kits were born on April 6, the Cincinnati Zoo announced in an April 17 blog post.The zookeepers gave ...
The center added that it was able to find other fox kits the same age and weight as the rescued fox. The tiny fox, weighing just 80 grams (2.8 oz), was discovered by Richmond SPCA and handed over ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center in Virginia are doing their best to act like mother foxes as they feed and care for an orphaned kit that found her way into their care.
A fox's dentition, like all other canids, is I 3/3, C 1/1, PM 4/4, M 3/2 = 42. (Bat-eared foxes have six extra molars, totalling in 48 teeth.) Foxes have pronounced carnassial pairs, which is characteristic of a carnivore. These pairs consist of the upper premolar and the lower first molar, and work together to shear tough material like flesh.
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