Five unusual foxes – fennec foxes – found home in the Feldman Ecopark. The bright representatives of African deserts live in one of the enclosures of the Regional Landscape Park. Everyone is able to enjoy the company of fennec foxes here.
“Such animals as fennec foxes are in the Feldman Ecopark’s collection for the first time. These foxes are very sociable: they are calm, tender, curious, clean, and, like the other congeners, they like to frolic and eat very much. They eat meat, fish and porridge,” Anna Zhukovska, the Feldman Ecopark’s veterinarian tells about new exotic inhabitants.
The caring workers have no doubts that thanks to quaint look, fennec foxes will win the visitors’ hearts. These foxes have the biggest ears among predators, and they make these boasters to look especially charming. Fennec foxes need these huge ears not as an eye candy, the specialists tell.
“The foxes need big ears for heat regulation and perfect hearing: hunting small vertebrates and insects they are able to hear their slightest move on sand,” the Feldman Ecopark deputy director of zootechnic issues Valeriia Ivashchenko tells.
It should be reminded that two rescued congeners of fennec foxes – the Arctic and silver foxes – were sheltered in the Feldman Ecopark. A volunteer from Kyiv Serhii Fedorashkin bought out them from an enterprise dealing with manufacturing of fur products. He gave them to the Ecopark for rehabilitation.
