13 Reasons Fennec Foxes Are About To Be Your New Favorite Animal

Fennec Foxes are the world's tiniest foxes! They only weigh about 2.2 pounds when fully grown!

And baby fennec foxes are extra tiny!

Fennec Foxes have giant yoda-like ears that help keep them cool in the deserts where they live!

Which, by the way, is why they're also sometimes called "desert foxes." And most of those deserts are in North Africa, and the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas.

They also have very soft fur and a thick, wooly undercoat that helps keep them warm on cold nights...

Which is very helpful because these little guys are nocturnal!

Fennec foxes usually live in small groups of up to about ten, so they're super loyal.

Fennec foxes have so far lived up to 14 years in captivity:

But they're very sneaky, so we don't know a whole lot about their lives in the wild.

But we do know that these little guys will eat anything! They're omnivores!

And these little desert dwellers can go a very long time without water! They're like fluffy, animate cacti!

But in spite of being tiny, fennec foxes can jump up to four feet and are VERY agile.

But most importantly of all, fennec foxes are simply very, very, very cute at any age!