Fennecus Zerda

You know, I wanted to tell you about them. How to start... Here! Sometimes I draw them. I'm actually not an artist, I'm just fooling around. But it’s hard to resist, they are mysterious and charming. I would like to tell you them right away, the trouble is that I still don’t really understand how to pronounce them. So I don't intrigue or show off. The Internet showed 144,000 responses to my query about them. They live in the Sahara and deserts of North Africa. For example, this captivates me. Smart creatures. It is difficult for a person to live in such places, and his neighbor is not very good - Homo Sapiens Erectus - Homo Sapiens Erectus. I read somewhere that for everyone living on Earth, the very idea of ​​man is criminal.

An adult specimen of this hmm... animal (not a human, no) reaches 21 centimeters at the withers. Withers... Stupid word. In general, it’s not a tall animal. I don’t remember about the length of the tail (they do have tails). But their ears... their ears are 14 centimeters long. And that's a lot. Why so big? Something to do with thermoregulation, there. It's hot in the desert, and excess heat escapes through their ears. What else? Oh yes! They don't have musk glands! Can you imagine?! And that's great. So they don't stink. Apparently, in deserts it is not advisable to mark territory, damn it, there is no one for hundreds of kilometers. They move on their paws, and their paw pads are also covered with hair, white or fawn, like themselves. This is needed for noiselessness. And one more plus in their favor. Why make unnecessary noise? People are making noise, but what's the point? Further, even more serious. They seem to be foxes. But... some scientists (who are so excited about this phrase) believe that not really. Standard foxes have from 35 to 40 pairs of chromosomes, but these ones only have 32. I won’t undertake to comment on anything here, because I’m not a biologist. In general, scientists consider them as a separate species, Fennecus Zerda, in Latin. By the way, I just don’t understand why scientifically everyone needs to be called in Latin. After all, it's just plain language. It is considered dead because no one speaks it. Well, he’s beautiful too, you can’t take that away. Although, I can imagine how a legionary of Ancient Rome addressed, for example, his commander during the transition - Mister Chapter, allow me to step aside, I need to take a leak. It sounds sublime in Latin, believe me, but that’s not what we’re talking about. These foxes, Fenecus, live in burrows and lead a “solitary lifestyle.” That's what it says. And I liked them even more. It’s not that I live in a hole, but it’s quite lonely, that’s for sure, you know it. I'm not looking for any similarities, but it seems to me that we could become friends with one of them. Well, imagine if he, this fox, took it and came to me. Or to you. He would have trotted across half of Europe, avoided difficulties (many would have tried to catch him) and would have sat on the threshold, and would have also brought some rare desert flower in his teeth... It’s spring! But most importantly, one of them saw the Little Prince, saw and talked to him. And then he told the French pilot about it.

Maybe if I met one such fox, he would also tell me something. What I don't know, but I really want to know. This has happened once before. It seems to me that these Fenekus know a lot. But they are silent.