🇪🇬 Animals of Egypt

The aurochs was the wild ox of Europe, North Africa and much of Asia, and the ancestor of domestic cattle.

The dugong is a large marine mammal that grazes seagrass in warm, shallow coastal water from East Africa to Vanuatu.

The fennec fox is the smallest canid, a cream-coloured fox of the Sahara with enormous ears that shed heat and hear prey under the sand.

The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread flamingo.

The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.

The least weasel is the smallest carnivore in the world, a tube-shaped hunter that follows voles and mice down their own tunnels.

The red fox has the widest range of any wild carnivore.

The whale shark is the largest fish in the sea.