• 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 species has traditionally been hunted for its fur, which in the past strongly affected numbers.

Corsac foxes inhabit a variety of landscapes including land, highlands and tundra, ground forests, and plains; the species’ elevation range extends up to 1.6 kilometers above sea level. They are found in moderate steppes characterized by abundant grass and few trees with occasional rainfall, as well as taiga biomes featuring cold winters and numerous coniferous trees such as spruce and pine. The climate varies significantly, encompassing cold steppes that are dry with cold winters and plentiful grass and sparse trees, extremely dry conditions where rain is very rare, a climate that is cold and nearly dry throughout the year, very hot summers exceeding +25 to +30 degrees Celsius, and environments that are always very wet with almost constant rainfall and high humidity.