Sand cats also occur in the desert, and sometimes take over abandoned fox dens. Honey badgers (also known as ratel) appear primarily in the southwest of the peninsula.[3] Golden jackals, a species which was previously thought to have gone extinct in the 1950s, was re-discovered in 2008 in Ras Abrouq.[8] Two species of bat are found in the country: the trident bat and the desert long-eared bat.