Baby Desert Kit Fox

Kit foxes are found in the southwestern united states and northern and central mexico.

Baby desert kit fox.

Training the baby fennec fox to sit duration. They re also the most elusive. The fennec fox is the smallest of all the world s foxes weighing only 2 2 pounds 1 kilogram. Of the three species found in arizona kit foxes are by far the smallest.

By daniel jacka photo by bruce d. It has enormous ears measuring 6 inches 15 centimeters which it appears to have borrowed from a much bigger relative. Faithful foxes 11 500 980 views. Along with the rest of the true foxes researchers place the kit fox we ll call them the kit in the taxonomic genus vulpes some of their relatives include arctic foxes red foxes fennec foxes swift foxes and more.

The desert kit fox project dipika kadaba. State protection would afford this cute keystone creature a better chance at surviving the california energy development boom. Kit foxes are almost exclusively carnivorous. The kit fox lives on the open desert on creosote bush flats and amongst the sand dunes.

Kit foxes can be found south through nevada utah southeastern california arizona new mexico and into western texas. To defend the desert kit fox and its dry scrubby but ecologically vital habitat in march 2013 the center petitioned california to protect the desert kit fox as threatened under the california endangered species act. Taubert kit foxes are the runts on the fox family tree. While relatively shy kit foxes are very curious and after observing from a distance sometimes approach people camping in the desert.

There is a significant population of this mammal in the pinto basin. The kit fox vulpes macrotis is a fox species of north america its range is primarily in the southwestern united states and northern and central mexico some mammalogists classify it as conspecific with the swift fox v. Seventy five percent of sightings are in areas with less than 20 percent vegetation cover. It has also been called an american fennec fox due to its large ears.

Although seldom seen the kit fox is not uncommon. A true desert dweller they range throughout all of north america s deserts from southeastern oregon to southwestern colorado and on down into mexico. Velox but molecular systematics imply that the two species are distinct. Fennec foxes are sometimes called desert foxes because they live in desert zones of north africa and the sinai and arabian peninsulas.

The northernmost part of their range is the arid interior of oregon. The eastern limit is southwestern colorado. They seldom need to drink getting all their water. The kit fox is a fox species that lives in southwest north america.