About Desert Animals Canidae, the dog family East and South
Africa Savannas and open plains with tall grass, thick brush and
burrows for hiding. Found in close proximity to ungulates Their
coats are yellowish-brown with brown feet and ear tips and
blackish brown faces. Their legs are relatively short, and tails
bushy, darkening in color toward the tip. Their ears are
approximately 5 inches long. They are the only canids that
prefer insects to mammalian prey. Eighty percent of their diet
consists of insects, particularly harvester termites and dung
beetles, as well as scorpions, fruits, and an occasional small
mammal or bird. They are hunted by native peoples for their
pelts and meat and also by carnivores such as the black-backed
jackal, slender mongoose and brown hyena. Bat-eared foxes
usually breed in pairs, giving birth in self-dug dens. But
single males may breed with two females and two or three
breeding dens may be clustered within a few hundred meters,
where soil and vegetation are suitable. After a 60