Wildlife includes the Arabian leopard, wolf, striped hyena, mongoose, baboon, hare, sand cat, and jerboa. The generation length of the sand cat is about 4 years and 9 months. The sand cat inhabits both sandy and stony deserts. The cat family are represented by the caracal, jungle cat, sand cat and wildcat. The Jerusalem Biblical Zoo started a sand cat reintroduction project in Israel's Arabah Desert. In Morocco, a male sand cat travelled in 30 hours. A male sand cat in Israel had a home range of . The Saharan sand cat is the smallest of all the four subspecies. In Jordan, a sand cat was recorded for the first time in 1997. The sand cat usually rests in underground dens during the day and hunts at night. Victor Loche first described a sand cat zoological specimen found in the northern Algerian Sahara. The sand cat is named in his honour, being given the binominal name "Felis margarita".