Fanack or desert fox

Fanack, desert fox, or hippocampus, as it is sometimes known, is one of the small-sized foxes that live in the Sahara Desert in North Africa and some parts of the Arabian Peninsula in Saudi Arabia, and which is distinguished by its very large ears. “Fennak” is an eloquent Arabic name given to a number of Furry animals.

Fennec is the smallest of all of the Canidae family.

Some scholars classify Fennec in a separate genus, which is the genus Fennecus (Latin: Fennecus), but even others classify it in the genus of real foxes (Latin: Vulpes).

And this controversy erupts among scientists because of this that the fennec has habits unfamiliar with the rest of the fox species of this genus, including living in groups while the rest of the foxes are solitary, and they have 32 pairs of chromosomes while the rest of the foxes have between 35 and 39 chromosomes. This has led to the existence of two classifications of the art, one of which classifies it as one of the real foxes and puts it with the scientific name "Vulpes zerda", while the other classifies it as forming its own genus, the genus of Fennec, and its scientific name is thus "Fennecus zerda", and it was on the brink of extinction. Centuries ago, because of the thinning of its soft fur, now it is protected from the law, as a reserve was set up for it in some areas of the Hoggar in Algeria.