Status
Least Concern
Habitat
Sand desert
Range
Africa
Group
Foxes
Ears built as radiators, not just receivers.
Those ears — up to fifteen centimetres on a fox weighing under a kilogram and a half — are dense with blood vessels and dump heat directly to the air. They also detect prey moving beneath the sand.
Fennecs can live without free-standing water indefinitely, extracting what they need from food and from kidneys tuned to concentrate urine severely. Their footpads are furred against sand that would burn other paws.
Frames in the archive
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Radiators
Erg Chebbi, after midnight, no flash.
Where we photograph it
The open shelf
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