Tibetan Sand Fox

The Tibetan Sand Fox or Tibetan Fox is a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau, Ladakh plateau, Nepal, China, Sikkim, and Bhutan, up to elevations of about 5,300 m (17,400 ft). The Tibetan fox is a tiny, compact animal with a silky, dense coat, an obscenely small head, and a bushy tail. Its cheeks, flanks, upper legs, and rumps are grey, while its muzzle, crown, neck, back, and lower legs are tan to rufous in color. Its tail tips are white. The insides and undersides of the short ears are white, while the backs of the ears range from tan to greyish tan.

Plateau pikas are the Tibetan fox's main prey, followed by rodents, marmots, woolly hares, and lizards. Additionally, it scavenges livestock, musk deer, blue sheep, and Tibetan antelope carcasses. Due to the nocturnal habits of their primary food, pikas, Tibetan foxes hunt primarily alone during the day. During pika hunts, Tibetan foxes may develop commensal relationships with brown bears. The foxes seize the pikas as they flee from the bears after they had dug them out.