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=**The sand cat **=



Scientific Name: felis margarita
===Physical description: Ranges from pale yellow to orange. Has stripes on legs and body. Stripes vary in color, but are always a pale orange to a dark brown. Has a wide, broad face and huge ears. The sand cat has rather short legs an d a medium length tail. ===

Average lifespan: About thirteen years.


===Habitat: Deserts of north Africa and in the deserts in the Arabian Peninsula, west of the caspian sea. their climate is hot, dry, sandy, and they prefer sand dunes over everything else. ===

**Diet:** birds,small mammals,small reptiles, & insects.
===Behavior & adaptations to its way of life: the sand cat is nocturnal,it has huge ears for listening for prey and pretitors. there is longer hair on their paws to help insulate their feet fronm the hot desert sand. they also dig burrows. ===

===How it reproduces: it reproduces through external furilization. their gestation period is around 60 days, and they have one to six per litter. ===

===Relationship to other animals (predator/prey, parasite, etc.): prey to people, wolves, foxes, and other large carnivourous desert animals. predator to birds, small mammals, small reptiles, and insects. the sand cat is carnivourous. ===

===Relationship to people: sand cats are wild, though some are sold at exotic pet stores, and kept as pets. === 

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