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Pale fox
Order : Carnivora
Family : Canidae
Species : Vulpes pallida
The African sand fox, pale fox, pallid fox is listed as Data Deficient (DD), inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Namings for the pale fox
A young / baby of a pale fox is called a 'cub, kit or pup'. The females are called 'vixen' and males 'reynard, todd or dog'. A pale fox group is called a 'leash or skulk'.Countries
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and SudanHabitats
Desert, Grassland, Hot Desert, Rocky areas (eg inland cliffs, mountain peaks), Shrubland, Subtropical / Tropical Dry Grassland and Subtropical / Tropical Dry Shrubland
Facts about the pale fox
Some interesting facts about the Pale Fox is
This is why Anubis became so important in the Kamite funerary ritual, why the coyote became so important in Native American cosmo-mythology, why the Pale Fox is so central to the Dogon world-system, indeed, why the dog proverbially became "man's best friend. (Full text)
Ogo, the pale fox, is apparently the "satan" of the dogon tribe. (Full text)
It appears that the pale fox is social, and live in communal burrows, which can interconnect. (Full text)
The pale fox is perhaps the least known canid of Africa and the Middle East. (Full text)
com Pale Fox is not in an especially active phase of its development at (Full text)
The pale fox is distributed in the semi-arid Sahelian region of Africa. (Full text)
The pale fox is an unnatural and socially disruptive creature born without placenta and thus robbed at birth of his female counterpart. (Full text)
I lift my arms, and turn my head, and the Pale Fox is at my side. (Full text)
1. Vulpes, genus Vulpes -- (foxes)Vulpes
genus Vulpes
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