THE SHY CAT OF THE SANDS
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Today we discover a small feline that lives in the torrid and arid African and Asian deserts: The shy sand cat (Felis margarita Loche, 1858).
It prefers flat or slightly hilly terrain with a minimum of vegetation where it is less complicated to find food than in the dunes. It can live in temperatures between -5 and 52 ° C, seeking shelter in the den when conditions are extreme. To live it needs very little water and is able to resist for months with only the liquids obtained from the food it eats.