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Bat-eared fox standing in an open field in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Africa. #323075649
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Pictured is a bat-eared fox standing in an open field in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Africa. They prefer bare ground and areas where grass is kept short by grazing ungulates. Bat-eared foxes are considered the only truly insectivorous canid, with a marked preference for harvester termites, Hodotermes mossambicus, which can constitute 80â90% of its diet. The binomial name is Otocyon megalotis and the subspecies is megalotis. It was photographed from a safari vehicle at the Atzaro Okavango Camp.