• The corsac can go long periods without water and food thanks to adaptations to arid conditions.
• Numbers can fluctuate tenfold in a single year depending on climatic catastrophes and rodent abundance.
• The corsac avoids forests and mountains, preferring open steppes, semi-deserts and deserts.
• The corsac is a small steppe fox of Central Asia whose name comes from the Turkic “karsak” and the Russian “korsak”.

The corsac fox is found within the Palearctic biogeographical region, specifically inhabiting the Kazakh forest-steppe ecosystem.