Fennec Fox Facts: the LARGEST EARS 👂 Animal Fact Files

A fennec fox has the largest ears in relation to body size of all living canids. Learn more fennec fox facts on this episode of Animal Fact Files!
Scientific Name: Vulpes zerda
Range: northern Africa and Sinai and Arabian peninsulas
Habitat: desert with vegetation
Size: smaller than a domestic cat
Diet: small animals, insects, plant material for moisture
Threats: owls, jackals, hyenas, humans
Lifespan: 10 years
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Fennec Fox EARS 0:00
Fennec Fox DIET 0:44
Fennec Fox HABITAT 1:26
Fennec Fox LIFE CYCLE 1:56
Fennec Fox THREATS 2:43
Fennec Fox SMELL 3:28
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[@AniFam]

Awesome~👍 Thank you for sharing this video~🤗

[@angelicagaldos]

They are so cute

[@dasunersattliche9076]

💚👍 they are also very zoomy compared to other foxes, are they?

[@muppetsretrofan8873]

The real-life Eevee and Fennekin from Pokémon! Fennec Foxes are super adorable, and I hope they are at least protected. I despise poachers!

[@comradeweismann6947]

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[@indyreno2933]

You got the scientific name of the fennec fox completely wrong, its correct scientific name is actually Fennecus zerda, it shares this genus with five other fairly similar species being the Bengal Fox (Fennecus bengalensis), Blanford's Fox (Fennecus canus), Ruppell's Fox (Fennecus rueppellii), Pale Fox (Fennecus pallidus), and Cape Fox (Fennecus chama), the fennec fox is more derived than the former three but basal to the latter two, in case you should notice, there are now twenty extant genera of dogs.

[@Vik1919]

Sofukingcutus could also be another name

[@indyreno2933]

No, that is an inappropriate and made-up name.

[@Vik1919]

​@@indyreno2933Wow, who would have thought? It's almost as if it was a joke.

[@hulick6910]

Isn’t fennecus part of some synonyms

[@indyreno2933]

@hulick6910, no, there are now twenty extant genera of dogs and the Vulpes genus is now restricted to only the red foxes, which are now three separate species: the Eurasian Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), the American Red Fox (Vulpes fulva), and the African Red Fox (Vulpes barbara), thus making Vulpes one of the smallest and least diverse genera of dogs, the other eleven extant species are actually all more closely related to both the bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis) and raccoon dogs (genus Nyctereutes) than to the red foxes, which therefore relocates them to three separate genera, the tibetan fox is now placed in the genus Neocyon with its scientific name now being Neocyon ferrilatus, the corsac fox, arctic fox, swift fox, and kit fox all now belong to the genus Alopex with their scientific names now being Alopex corsac, Alopex lagopus, Alopex velox, and Alopex macrotis respectively, and the bengal fox, blanford's fox, ruppell's fox, fennec fox, pale fox, and cape fox all now belong to the genus Fennecus with their scientific names now being Fennecus bengalensis, Fennecus canus, Fennecus rueppellii, Fennecus zerda, Fennecus pallidus, and Fennecus chama respectively, with the species in the genus Fennecus being the closest to both the bat-eared fox and raccoon dogs and the species in the genus Alopex being the second closest, leaving the red foxes as the most basal and distantly related from all the other groups and the tibetan fox of the monotypic genus Neocyon to be more derived than the red foxes but basal to the Alopex + (Fennecus + (Otocyon + Nyctereutes)) clade, this makes members of the subtribe Vulpina within the tribe Canini the "elephants" of dogs, this is due to this being similar to how asiatic elephants (genus Elephas) and straight-tusked elephants (genus Palaeoloxodon) are more closely related to mammoths (genus Mammuthus) than they are to african elephants (genus Elephas).