Rakws Category: Mammals

​Scientific Name: Lepus capensis

Size:  Head-body Length: 40 – 68 cm,  tail length between 7 -15 cm.

Habitat:  Arid and desert environments

Diet: Grasses and non-woody plants

IUCN  Red List Status:  Least Concern

Cape hares survices in the hot arid environments through some amazing adaptations:  minimizing water loss by producing concentrated urine; ability to drink saline waters; and radiating heat through their large ears.  They sometimes also hide in burrows to escape high temperatures.

Scientific Name: Vulpes vulpes arabica

Size:  67 cm to 72
cm

Habitat: Diverse environments

Diet:. Small mammals, invertebrates as well as
fruits and almost anything to scavenge on eg. Tin cans and plastic bottles.

IUCN  Red List
Status: Least Concern

The largest of true foxes believed to have originated in
the Middle East before widely spreading across
all types of environment.

Scientific Name: Paraechinus
aethiopicus

Size:  Up to 27 cm
long

Habitat:  Desert
environments and other arid areas.

Diet:. Insects and other invertebrates, occasionally feeding on eggs chicks and scorpions.

IUCN  Red List
Status:  Least Concern