. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE CORSAC. This species of the Fox, which roams about on the broad steppes of Asiatic Russia to the east of the Caspian Sea, is small but active, and seldom makes a burrow for itself, but sleeps with no further attempt at concealment than is afforded by the vegetation of these treeless plains. The picture shows one of these animals taking a nap, while the other, wide-awake, presents the characteristics of a true Fox, with a dense fur and a bushy t
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammalia. Mammals; Animal behavior. THE CORSAC. This species of the Fox, which roams about on the broad steppes of Asiatic Russia to the east of the Caspian Sea, is small but active, and seldom makes a burrow for itself, but sleeps with no further attempt at concealment than is afforded by the vegetation of these treeless plains. The picture shows one of these animals taking a nap, while the other, wide-awake, presents the characteristics of a true Fox, with a dense fur and a bushy tail. (Vulpes corsac.) whisker hairs, which add to the peculiar appearance of the animal. The fur is of silky softness and in winter is supplemented by a woolly inner coat, which in spring is rubbed off in flakes by brushing the body against branches, etc. One would think that the Fennec did not ,_ need a thick fur in the '~- warm country he inhab- its; but the little fellow seems to be very sensi- tive to cold, and to stand in need of more than or- dinary protection. The upper surface of the body has a color decid- edly similar to that of the sand; the under sur- face is white; and there is also a white patch over the eyes, while a darker stripe is found beneath them. The tail is very long, bushy and nearly of an ochre yel- low tint, but with only black patches at the root and the tip. The fur of the female is of a straw muzzle, although the ears are similar to those of the Fennec and nearly as large. Its favorite haunts are the bushy, elevated plains of the interior in southern Africa, north of the Orange river. During the day it lies hidden like all its rela- tives, affecting thick bushes or the ant-hills that the Earth-hog has broken open; at night it roams about and sometimes ap- proaches camp fires utter- ing really doleful wailings. Its food consists of small animals and animal refuse, but mainly of Locusts. The Gray Fox The Gray Fox an American ( Vulpes cincrco- S pedes.
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