Kingdom: Animalia                                         

• Multicellular

• Heterotrophs

• Reproduce sexually

• Ingests and digests food in an internal cavity

Phylum: Chordata

• Notochord

• Bilateral symmetry

• Segmented muscles

• Complete digestive system 

Class: Mammalia

•  Hair

• Mammary glands

• Three middle ear bones

• Feed with milk

• Teeth

Order: Carnivora

• Eat meat

• Acute senses

• Highly developed

• Skulls

Family: Canidae

• More omnivorous than carnivorous

• Kills by grabbing neck with teeth

• Long muzzle

• Full set of teeth

Genius and Species: Vulpes Pallida

• Short legs

• Narrow muzzle

• Long rounded ears

• Sandy color

Poem:

   African Sand Fox

Nocturnal and so Cunning

Hides in his Burrow

References:

Animal Diversity web 4/17/02

• www.animaldiversity.org

• Grzmecks Encyclopedia of Mammals

• Rosevear, D.R. The carnivorous of west Africa: British museum of natural history,1974  

Fun Facts:

• Eye surrounded by a black ring

• tip of tail is black 

• nocturnal

• Lives in a pack of three   

• Tunnels are 10-15 meters long  

•  Have a "foxy" odor arising mainly from a gland located on the dorsal surface of the tail, not far from the base.

• Six young are born per month

• Weaning takes eight weeks

• Life span ten years

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