In the deserts, large predators are not common and very few meat-eating mammals of any description are found. The khilla, however, is one of the few. Standing about 60 centimeters high at the shoulder, it is largely nocturnal and spends most of the day hidden in a network of burrows excavated in soft sand. At night it hunts smaller mammals and obtains most of the water it needs from the moisture contained in their flesh.
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