Bat-Eared Fox Adaptations
Adaptations for this family include unusually large ears and small bodies for Fennec and Bat-Eared Foxes. This protects them from the hot African climate. The Fennec and Arctic Fox have thick fur to help provide protection from the climate, and they have thick fur on their paws to protect against hot sand/cold snow. They are also both monogamous animals. Bat-Eared Foxes and Arctic Foxes have no shared traits. They are all monogamous. animals that live in underground dens, have amazing hearing, and are hunted and killed for their fur. Although these animals share many traits, their niches are very different. The Fennec Fox is a nocturnal omnivore. It hunts rodents, insects, and birds and eats desert grasses and fruits during the
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Ear size, scoop shape, and downward-and-outward angle sharpen hearing to help the animal hear insects burrowing underground. Large ears also help keep them cool in the desert climate. This animal’s sandy coloration provides camouflage from predators and prey. They also have unusually long legs and are very fast and agile, which helps in evading predators. The Bat-Eared Fox gestation period is about 60-70 days. Speciation is defined as the evolutionary process by which a new biological species arises. This gives scientists an approximate time and order of an animals evolution. Vulpes riffautae is the oldest known fossil species for Fennec and Arctic Foxes. This dates back about 7 million years. The Fennec Fox has gone through Allopatric Speciation. Supposedly, a group of red and grey foxes were isolated from the rest due to plate tectonics. Like the Fennec Fox, the Arctic Fox has undergone Allopatric Speciation. This dates back about 7 million years. Early fox populations migrated in two different directions, North and South. Those that went North became what we know as Arctic Foxes, and those that went South became Red or Grey Foxes. The Bat-Eared Fox first appeared during the middle Pleistocene, about 800,000 years ago. Supposedly evolved from the canidae family that is a lineage of carnivores. This family was later divided into the Canini and Vulpini
Ear size, scoop shape, and downward-and-outward angle sharpen hearing to help the animal hear insects burrowing underground. Large ears also help keep them cool in the desert climate. This animal’s sandy coloration provides camouflage from predators and prey. They also have unusually long legs and are very fast and agile, which helps in evading predators. The Bat-Eared Fox gestation period is about 60-70 days. Speciation is defined as the evolutionary process by which a new biological species arises. This gives scientists an approximate time and order of an animals evolution. Vulpes riffautae is the oldest known fossil species for Fennec and Arctic Foxes. This dates back about 7 million years. The Fennec Fox has gone through Allopatric Speciation. Supposedly, a group of red and grey foxes were isolated from the rest due to plate tectonics. Like the Fennec Fox, the Arctic Fox has undergone Allopatric Speciation. This dates back about 7 million years. Early fox populations migrated in two different directions, North and South. Those that went North became what we know as Arctic Foxes, and those that went South became Red or Grey Foxes. The Bat-Eared Fox first appeared during the middle Pleistocene, about 800,000 years ago. Supposedly evolved from the canidae family that is a lineage of carnivores. This family was later divided into the Canini and Vulpini