I really do search the forums before asking these oddball questions, but this car seems to be different than other cars I've owned.

At idle, my cooling fan is barely moving, if at all.
It starts to turn at over 1000 rpms.

This doesn't seem right to me, but I'm not really having any overheating issues here in the dog days of the Arizona summer.

(I do sometimes hear a howl that I can only suspect is a belt slipping on something, but thats another issue I suspect)

What is it supposed to be like?