Editing Fennec fox (section)

=== In culture ===
{{See also|Foxes in popular culture}}
[[File:Die Gartenlaube (1875) b 033.jpg|thumb|alt="A greyscale sketch of a group of long eared foxes on a rocky outcrop in a desert. There is a crumbling brick building to the left and two of the foxes are on lookout."|A drawing of a skulk of fennec foxes by [[Gustav Mützel]], 1876]]

The fennec fox is the [[National symbols of Algeria|national animal]] of [[Algeria]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Hodges |first=K. |year=2012 |title=National Animals of African Countries |url=http://african.howzit.msn.com/national-animals-of-african-countries?page=10 |access-date=19 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225172955/http://african.howzit.msn.com/national-animals-of-african-countries?page=10 |archive-date=25 February 2014}}</ref> It also serves as the nickname for the [[Algeria national football team]] "Les Fennecs".<ref>{{cite web |author=Fifa |title=Paris salutes Les Fennecs |date=2009 |publisher=Fifa |url=http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid%3D1137333/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601025618/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid%3D1137333/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-06-01}}</ref> The species is depicted in ''[[The Little Prince]]'', a 1943 novella by [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]] which follows the story of a pilot who is forced to make an emergency plane landing in the remote Sahara Desert.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-01 |title=The Amazigh Adventures of Le Petit Prince |url=https://www.aramcoworld.com/articles/2017/the-amazigh-adventures-of-le-petit-prince |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=www.aramcoworld.com |language=en}}</ref> In 2000, the fennec fox was portrayed on the cover of a  [[Ranger Rick|''Ranger Rick'' magazine]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dobrin |first1=Sidney I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zWO3VdPs8wIC&dq=fennec+fox+human+culture+literature&pg=PA168 |title=Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism |last2=Kidd |first2=Kenneth B. |date=2004 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-3028-9 |pages=168 |language=en}}</ref> In [[Roman literature|Roman art and literature]], there is dearth of depictions of fox species in general. However, according to [[Martial's Epigrams|Martial's ''Epigrams'']] which describes the "long-eared fox" as a popular pet, it is likely that the fennec fox was kept as an exotic pet in the [[Roman Empire|Roman empire]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=Sian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GvJFDwAAQBAJ&dq=Fennec+fox+in+literature&pg=PT372 |title=The Culture of Animals in Antiquity: A Sourcebook with Commentaries |last2=Llewellyn-Jones |first2=Lloyd |date=2018-01-09 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-78249-4 |language=en}}</ref> Additionally, the species has made appearances as ''Fenneko'' in the animed TV series ''[[Aggretsuko]].''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hanaway |first=Tom |date=2018-05-19 |title=Sanrio characters in 'Aggretsuko' reflect the realities of life at work — rage included |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/19/national/media-national/sanrio-characters-reflect-realities-life-work-rage-included/ |access-date=2025-01-06 |website=The Japan Times |language=en}}</ref>