FENNEC FOXES

FENNEC FOXES

The fennec fox is the smallest of the foxes and has the largest ears. Its evolution it most unusual. It lives only in deserts mostly north of the Sahara. 

Its fur is of the palest colour of the foxes. At the back it is creamy coloured and at the stomach it is white. 

The bushy tail has black or dark brown tip.

Its large triangular ears has on top the same colour as on the back and inside the ears are paler longer hair. Like the rest of his family foxes his head is flattened and a narrow pointed muzzle.

Its eyes look dark especially against the cream coloured fur and the whiskers are dark.
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HABITAT

The long ears which can be up to 15cm long are one of the fox’s adaptations to his hot dry surroundings. Since foxes are know for their sharp hearing but these ears also help to lose body heat.  The change into sandy colour of its coat also provides a camouflage. Another evolution occurred in growing fur on the sole of his feet to withstand the heat of the sand.

It has a further advantage in having strong legs and paws. This enables the Fennec Fox to dig in so quickly to either catch a prey or escape being eating. People remarked that it is so fast it looks like it is sinking.

FAMILY LIFE

The fennec fox lives on in desert or semi-desert areas. It lives more in a family of 10 or 15 not like other species of foxes.  Each family has one predominant male which marks it territory with urine. It had not been established ho big these territories are but it is thought they are not very big.

They use various sounds of wails, growls and excited chattering noises.  Fennec foxes also make calls of distances and it can last for one or two seconds which sounds like a melancholy howl.

It hunts and lives on the top at night. During the day it is resting in burrows which are deep because the further down the cooler it is.  The tunnels are several metres long. It assumed that they may have several chambers and exists as well as entrances.

DIETS

The fennec has an enormous appetite. It eats mainly rodents digging them out at night.

They also eat bird eggs, lizards and insects, particularly the terrible desert pest, the locust. Experts assume that they bury surplus food underground.  Like the rest of the species the Fennec spends most its nights looking for food.  It will drink when near a water hole but it had been seen far form any desert oases and can go for long periods without water.

MATING SEASON

They mate from January to March. During this time the male becomes aggressive and defends it territory. Gestation takes about 50 days. They give birth to their young between March and May. The cubs are born in a chamber lined with grasses. They usual have one to five cubs and are 5cm long and blind, weight 42-45gr. When they are born their ears and tail are short but start growing quickly after the third week. The coat is dark sandy coloured and has a dark stripe down the back. The face is also black.

After the third month they get the adult colour.

The female rests for the last few days before the birth. The male brings food to the den.

When the female give birth to its young she turns fierce and defends the young ones. The male stays close by but does not go too close. The cubs open their eyes between 12 and 20 days and start eating solids at three weeks of age.  This food will be brought to the den by the male. After that they venture out of the den and after one year they are sexually matured.  It had been known that younger foxes challenge older one and also kill them.

Mostly females have a litter once a year but if they lose it they can have another within the year.

DANGER OF EXTINCTION

It does not threaten human existence but it is still hunted right across their territories. The result is that its number is reducing and now only exists at certainly area. Once it was widely spread across Arabia but now it is extremely rare. However, it responses well to conservation programmes bred well in zoos.

RED FOXES - Updated 23 May, 2017

Update 23 May, 2017 --
Theresa May wants to  bring back foxhunting. She included it in her GE2017 manifesto.

At present, fox hunting is  banned but it is still done. No stopping by police or any prosecution because the Elite likes it and are protected by the Tory Government.

UPDATED:  14  July, 2015 --
Scottish National Party announced that they will vote against David Cameron's plan to bring back fox hunting. The voting on Wednesday was now cancelled. Cameron will bring in an English vote for English law only. This would ensure that he will win to cancel the Fox Hunting Ban.

When David Cameron's plans are in doubt of success he will manoeuvre everything to ensure success.   DEMOCRACY?

UPDATE: 15 MAY, 2015 -- The Tories have won the election and David Cameron is already busy with getting a new fox hunting act through Parliament. You would think he has more urgent business to attend to, such as their economy which dropped down to 0.3 percent GDP, the immigration which run into 250,000 a year, the NHS above all,  but apparently not. 

 UPDATED: 26 April, 2015 - The hunting with horses and blood hounds is still going on and poor foxes are being ripped apart by the hounds. Although there is a Law against but the 'Gentry'are still carry on. When the Tories win in the next election in May, 2015 David Cameron promised to allow fox hunting.

The red fox has a reputation of being elusive since it hunts mainly at night and especially solitary. It has a sharp intelligence, also cunning, an acute hearing and a great sense of smell. Foxes lead a solitary life mostly. In December, when the mating season starts, the male gives three short barks and the vixen answers back with an eerie scream. Cubs are born around the middle of March.

RED FOX CUBS

Facts about the red fox

Scientists discovered that they are quite social creatures. The discovery was done with radio-tracking and night-vision equipment. Through this equipment they could study them and their behaviour. Sometimes, a male and female pair were mating and breeding on their own. They also discovered that a dog fox lives with as many as five vixens. This study also showed that younger females are usual from previous breeding season. Young males leave the group and find themselves other females to form a group.

Some young vixens, instead of having young ones themselves, help to bring up the baby red foxes in the group. This helps to bring even more food and gives more protection against predators. The conservationists have not yet discovered about the helpers whether they do breed the next season.

Hoarders for lean times

Red foxes bury surplus kills and eggs from ground-nesting birds.

This may explain when they get into a chicken run why they kill every bird. Their instinct is to kill and kill to provide food for lean times. Although they never can take the birds away with them. It is the sheer number of food in front of his nose and easily to kill in comparison to the wild.

It has also been discovered, that foxes secrete their prey. They also have a good memory where they bury their kill.

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BUT SURELY THE PET RABBIT
IS NOT MEANT FOR HIS DINNER

Streetwise Mr Reynard

You can find or see red foxes in the Cities. During the day it is lying in the shade, in some corner, and watching the going on, while he is resting but always alert. This is a fox which grew up in a city and adapted his habit accordingly. He knows his territory and always looks for food and lodging. He feeds on various leftovers or natural.

They were seen in the most amazing places such as London Tower Bridge and walking along a car assembly line in Oxford. In Bristol it is thought that there were 21 adult foxes per sq mile. In a study it was noticed that they prefer the parks, suburban gardens, playing fields and patches of wasteland.

Small mammals, birds and earthworms are a third of their diet. The rest of it is from human left-overs; compost heaps and rubbish bins where they are in competition from dogs and cats. In late summer and autumn they add fruit and blackberries to their diets.

Naturalists think that foxes went into towns in 1950 when there was a wipe out of 95 % of the rabbits which is the foxes main food supply. After the rabbit population recovered the red foxes did not return to the countryside.

At the moment they multiply so much in London they becoming a danger to the public and there were a number of attacks on children and also found inside homes. Conservationists are all against red fox hunting but if they becoming a danger something has to be done but not ripped apart, alive, by bloodhounds..

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