The fennec fox is the smallest of the foxes. Their head and body are 9.5 to 16 inches long and their tail is 7 to 12 inches long. They stand at 8 inches in height at the shoulders.

The fennec fox. Faced with such a challenge, the team would be lost without local expert Ali Oubassidi. - [Gavin] So the desert must be like your back garden?

Sequencing was also performed on 18 Eurasian red foxes, 24 North African Rueppell's foxes, and ten genomes belonging to two divergent North African species: desert specialist fennec fox (n = 5 ...