Environment: The Fennec fox lives in the Sahara desert which is the northern part of Africa. It covers part of Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Chad, Niger, Tunisia, Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, and Morocco. The Sahara desert includes dunes, sand seas, sand sheets, plateaus, mountains, gravel covered plains, shallow basins, and large oasis depressions. More than 25% of the Sahara’s surface is covered by dunes and sand sheets. The lowest part of the Sahara is in the Qattera depression of Egypt which is 133 m below sea level. The highest point is at the summit of Mount Koussi which is 3,415 m high. Other animals that live in the Sahara desert are Monitor lizards, Dorcas gazelles, and Dromedary camels.
Diet: 90% of what the Fennec fox eats are little animals or insects which give them protein. They scavage for the other 10% which is mostly roots that they find and dig up. Plants aren’t very abundant in the desert though, so they get their leafy nutrition from animals they eat that eat plants. More specifically, Fennecs eat rodents, birds and bird eggs, other small mammals, beetles and other insects, lizards and other reptiles, and only few fruit and plant matter.