| NOUN | a bat-eared fox | bat-eared foxes | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- In addition to elephants, rhinos, porcupines and blue cranes, there are also rarely shown animals such as the sand cat, lesser kudu, bat-eared fox and the round-eared elephant shrew living in the Valley of the Grey Giants.
- This species features in the diets of the bat-eared fox "Otocyon megalotis" (Canidae), the yellow mongoose "Cynictis penicillata", the small grey mongoose "Galerella pulverulenta", and the water mongoose "Atilax paludinosus" (Viverridae).
- The bat-eared fox ("Otocyon megalotis") is a species of fox found on the African savanna.
- Since the soldier termites of this species can shoot aversive chemical compounds through their fontanelle squirt gun located on their heads, African insectivores such as the bat-eared fox are not capable to feed on its colonies in a systematic way.
- The large roan antelope and the nocturnal bat-eared fox, rarely present elsewhere in Kenya, can be seen within the reserve borders.
- "Prototocyon" was a small canine similar to the bat-eared fox in overall morphology and likely in habits as well. It differed from the modern bat-eared fox mainly in its more primitive dentition.
- Approximately another 25 current or extinct species are always or sometimes called foxes; these foxes are either part of the paraphyletic group of the South American foxes, or of the outlying group, which consists of the bat-eared fox, gray fox, and island fox.
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