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Bat-eared Fox

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Shot of the Month – February 2011 This month we will learn a bit about the adorable, but often hard-to-find bat-eared fox (BeF). I photographed the one shown here in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. BeFs are found in one of two distinct populations, either in South West Africa (Namibia, Botswana, certain parts of Zimbabwe, […]

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