Sand Cat Habitat And Food

Sand cat is carnivore meat-eaters.

Sand cat habitat and food. Traps are set by people to kill foxes and wolves. Farmers shepherd dogs sometimes kill sand cats. When it gets too hot or cold they retreat into a burrow.

The sand cat also known as the sand dune cat is a small wild cat that inhabits sandy and stony deserts far from water sources. Instead they live in dry sandy plains and rocky valleys. They are found near the patches of sparse vegetation that can support their prey species and the cats have special adaptations to survive in the extreme desert conditions.

Habitat degradation is the major threat to the sand cat. Wars and political strife harms the sand cat by harming its habitat. Carnivorous feeding mainly on desert rodents such as jerboas as well as birds lizards and invertebrates.

The sand cat is the only felid found primarily in true deserts. Sand cat hides leftovers of food in the sand. Sand cats are active during the night nocturnal animals to avoid high temperatures above 52 degrees of Celsius during the day.

Sand cats are also. They like to inhabit flat terrain and keep away from dunes which provide little food. The IUCN Red List has standardised habitat types globally and there is only one primary habitat type.

In North Africa the cat appears in numerous locations. Its head-and-body length ranges from 3952 cm with a 2331 cm long tail. Vulnerable arid ecosystems are being rapidly degraded by human settlement and activity especially livestock grazing Allan and Warren 1993 Al-Sharhan et al.