Fennec Fox

The fennec fox is the smallest of the world’s foxes, and can be found inhabiting sandy deserts and semi-deserts in North Africa. These small canids are prevalent throughout the Sahara from Morocco to Sinai andArabia. They prefer sandy deserts and arid areas with scrub or desert grasses.

Fennec foxes are well adapted in order to inhabit the harsh environments in which they live. They have very dense hair, which protects them from the hot sun during the day and has a woolly undercoat to insulate them at night. They also have extra hair on their feet – this helps protect them from the hot sand, and also acts like snowshoes, to give the creature traction when running on the sand.

Their coats are a pale cream, with a black-tipped bushy tail. They have small, pointed faces, large eyes and extremely large ears.