Namibia's Bat-Eared Foxes

Huge ears are the trademark of the bat-eared foxes, which are actually capable with their hypersensitive ears of locating the underground crawling sounds of minute living creatures that are their prey, beetles, larvae and other insects, and digging them up in a quick scraping movement, then consuming them. It comes as no surprise that these small canids are at home particularly in southern Africa, in the Kalahari desert, since, as avid diggers, they need plenty of sand. Sand, which is ideal for foraging for prey.