The Safari!

 

 Hi, all! :D On this page, I will post AWESOME animal facts that are written by YOU! :D

Here's what I'll expect:

1) True facts

2) Good grammar. I can fix spelling and punctuation errors. ;)
3) The facts can be about any animal you want! :D Just pick your favorite! :) 

I'll also add pictures to the facts you come up with, so don't worry about that. 

Ways you can get your facts to me:

-Email me at mickey.evil.gerbil@gmail.com

-Post them in a comment

-Give me a link to the facts if they are posted on your blog or something like that .-.

Corsac Foxes

Hello! This is SilverDawn here, so step into my horse cart with me and I'll take you to see corsac foxes! Well, you'll have to sit on top of the hay...

Lol, I wish I really did have a horse cart. I don't.

Look, there's a corsac fox!

 The Corsac Fox, or Vulpes Corsac, is another member of the genus Vulpes. They can be found in the steppes of Central Asia (I think a steppe is a cold grassland place). The Corsac Fox is threatened by hunting for their fur :(
The mating season for Corsac Foxes starts in January and ends in March. Reynards will fight for vixens, but then they will establish a monogamous bond, which means they mate for life. The vixen will sometimes share a birthing den with other pregnant vixens, but will often move her kits around a bit. After around two months of pregnancy the mother will give birth to around the same many kits as domestic cats do - two to seven, or rarely more. The newborn have fluffy light brown fur and are blind. Their eyes open after around two weeks, and they start to eat meat at about four weeks. They reach sexual maturity (the age when they are able to give birth to their own kits) at the age of nine or ten months. 

Red Foxes

Now come with me and I'll show you red foxes!

Red Foxes, or vulpes vulpes are a member of the genus Vulpes. They can be found all over Europe, as well as several other parts of the world. Their main coat-colour is usually red (hence their name) but it also comes in black, silver, and multi-coloured. They have a thick, bushy tail called a brush. Their habitat ranges from woodlands to open planes and even urban areas. They are surprisingly very common in London. Red Foxes feed on rodents, lizards, birds, fish, and sometimes fruit, vegetables, grains and nuts. Males are known as Reynards, females as vixens and babies as kits. When living in human settlements (such as London) they are nocturnal, but where undisturbed they can be seen in the day. They swim well. They den underground, sometimes an enlarged rabbit burrow or badger sett. They occasionally even den in a badger sett where a badger (or several) is still living. The Fox's den usually has several entrances. As a rule there is a regular arrangement with a sort of cavity close to the entrance, further in a storage chambre and finally, deep down, the nest chambre where they sleep. Litters usually consist of about four kits, but there can be up to 13. Kits are born chocolate brown, fluffy, blind, deaf and toothless. The mother will stay with her kits for the first 2 to 3 weeks, so the father or Reynard feeds the mother in this period. If the mother dies before the kits are independent then the father takes over as their provider. The kits' eyes open after 13 to 15 days, during which their ear canals open and their upper teeth erupt. The lower teeth emerge three-ish days later. Their eyes are initially blue but after four or five weeks they turn amber. Coat colour begins to change at three weeks of age, when the black eye-streak appears. The kits begin to leave their den at the age of 3 to 4 weeks. The lactation period (in other words, when the kits are still suckling their mother) lasts about six to seven weeks. The kits reach adult proportions at about 6 to 7 months.

Polar Foxes

It'll be cold over here, pull the hay around you! There's a polar fox, look!

Polar Foxes (vulpes lagopus) have a thick white coat in winter, to blend in with the snow and keep the warm. In the summer, they have a grey or brown one. They can be found in and on the edge of the tundra, often above treeline. Being a high Arctic animal, the Polar Fox is active by day as well as by night. They usually live in a family or a small group. They den in a rock fissure or in a hole dug it dug, sometimes a very extensive warren system. They store food. Their voice is rather like hoarse barking, mixed in the pairing time with howls, wails and yelps. Litters of kits vary from five to eight but their may be as many as 25. Both the mother and the father help to raise the young. Young from a previous year's litter may stay with the parents to help raise younger siblings. Litters are born in the early summer. The kits' eyes open after 13 to 15 days, during which their ear canals open and their upper teeth erupt. The lower teeth emerge three or so days later.

Horses

We won't have to look hard for these, you can find them all over the world!

The horse (equus ferus caballas) is one the two extant (meaning non-extinct) subspecies of the wild horse (equus ferus). Horses are odd-toed ungulates (a mammal with hooves featuring an odd number of toes). Equus ferus caballas are domesticated, but some of these live in the wild as feral horses. They're not actually wild because they had domesticated ancestors, in the same way as feral cats aren't the same as wild cats or feral pigs aren't the same as wild boar. Some examples of feral horses are:

Dartmoor ponies:

Exmoor ponies:

Camargue horses:

Mustang horses: 

Shetland ponies:

There are more!

True wild horses (not feral ones) are sadly very endangered now, and most species of them are extinct. 

This is the Prezwalski's horse, the last true wild horse. 

Going back to domestic horses, the smallest horse is the falabella, the largest is the shire and the fastest (for middle distances) is the thoroughbred. Horse colour ranges from chestnut:

 

Bay:

Dapple grey:

White:

"Black" horses are usually very dark bays, but true blacks do exist:

There is also golden. 

Many people think that the difference between a bay and a chestnut is that the bay is darker. However, the real difference is that the chestnut's mane and tail is a similar colour to its coat, whereas the chestnut's is usually black. 

This is a chestnut filly. 

Circled in green is what you would think is her calf (lower part of her leg), but is actually her foot. The part circled in red is her calf. A filly is a female horse below five years of age. Once five years old they become mares. The male version of a filly is a colt and the male version of a mare is a stallion. Horses live into their twenties or sometimes thirties. 

This (randomly) is a shire horse:

They are the biggest kind of horse.