5 and a half million square miles of
China the Sahara Smothers 6% of the world's
land yet this vast unforgiving place is
home to the world's smallest wild [Music]
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dog the fenic [Music]
fox barely the size of a walking boot
this tiny fox goes head-to-head with the
day the Sahara is filled with Millions
upon millions of grains of
sand and every grain
acts as a
radiator sand absorbs heat and the
radiates the temperature here spirals to over
100° in such sizzling conditions the
fenex size Matters a small body Can Shed
and to lose heat even faster the fenex
ears act like sophisticated air conditioning
conditioning
units the network of veins cools the
temperature despite such capable cooling
not even a fenic can endure the heat of
Sun there's no shade but Fen are masters
of their
environment moisture concentrates at the
foot of the Junes so the sand here is
firm enough to dig a
burrow home sweet home for rep pair of [Music]
fenics they have Shelter From the worst
of the heat but they must eventually
leave the safety of their den to find food
and this enormous desert is a dangerous
place for a tiny wild
dog an unwary fenic is small enough to
be caught by feral dogs and even eagle [Music]
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owls but their camouflaged coats make
conspicuous in the fading light of dusk
it
zigzagging and
jumping she uses the Junes to mask her
location the grains of sand are
constantly shifting but the pads on her
feet are furry for Maximum
Traction few can keep tabs on her whereabouts
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