Essay about Foxes: The Introduced Pest

The European red fox (vulpes vulpes), is a highly adaptable, opportunistic omnivorous mammal characterised by its big ears, bushy tail and reddish-brown coats. The red fox is an introduced pest specie in Australia, originating in North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa. The red fox was brought to Australia for by British colonies for recreational hunting as early as 1855 and from then the fox rapidly spread across the southern area's of Australia, except for Tasmania, coinciding with the distribution rabbits, as they are the key prey of the red fox. Within 20 years, the red fox had achieved pest status in Australia. This species rapid spread was reliant on the lack of natural predators in Australian, only having only the dingoes and Tasmanian devil to compete for food in certain areas like Tasmania, where the fox populations seem to be supressed. Their introduction has been the reason for the extinction and decline of many native Australian species, especially terrestrial mammals including the Long-nosed

The animal I was given for this assignment was the Channel Island Fox. They are considered to be near extinction animals with nearly about 2,500 fox left (last checked 2008). The Channel Island Fox is a type of fox that only lives on the Channel Islands, which is located around the coast of Southern California in about 19 to 61 miles away from the continental state. On a clear day in California, many visitors have the chance to see the islands over the shores. Within the eight islands, only six of the islands have the Channel Island Fox on their land. The six islands are San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Santa Catalina, San Nicolas and San Clemente. Each island has different features which has given each island fox a different trait compared to each one, but they are still considered as Island Fox.

Kit foxes have exceptionally large and closely set ears. Their ears help spread the body heat in the desert like environments. Kit foxes typically have a slender and small body with long legs and a very puffy tail. Their tails stick straight out behind them, and it tipped in black. Kit foxes coats change with the seasons going from a rusty tan to grey in the summer, to a silvery grey color with a white belly in the winter. The kit fox's

They turned out to be both predation by non-native golden eagles on Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel, and canine distemper virus on Santa Catalina Island. In order to prevent extinction, the remaining foxes had to be protected from disease and predation. Secondly, the threats that the population was exposed to had to be eliminated because unless the fox populations were free from predation and disease, even the most successful program would not produce enough animals to prevent extinction

As a quote by Seth Godin says, "[l]eadership almost always involves thinking and acting like the underdog. That's because Leaders work to change things, and the people who are winning rarely do." This quote accurately describes Francis Marions's, the Swamp Foxes's, life. Francis Marion grew upon a rice plantation in South Carolina. When he grew older, he was a sailor for a short while and then moved to another plantation. However, he was a part of the South Carolinian militia and fought in the French and Indian War. After the war, he returned to his plantation until the the Revolutionary War began.When the war began, Marion's first battle was at the Battle of Charleston. In which, British ships tried to take the harbor, but Marion drove

Species often face multiple threats. We considered the relative impact of three major threats on populations of the San Joaquin kit fox. This species was once widely distributed across the southern San Joaquin Valley, but agriculture and development have replaced much of the now endangered subspecies’ habitat. We modeled impacts of climate change, land-use change, and rodenticide exposure on kit fox populations using a spatially explicit, individual-based population model. Our study indicates that landuse change will have the biggest impact on kit fox populations, with the potential to decrease populations by approximately 9% under a compact growth scenario or 15% under a business-as-usual scenario. 55% of the best kit fox habitat also has

Australian Government tried to isolate “full-blood” Aboriginals and interbreed them with the white settlers so try and wipe out the aboriginal race and make Aboriginals live in and act like the new white settlers. Children were taken from their families to be placed into Christian missionaries to be brought up as Christians like the white people from England who settled here

Throughout history, species have evolved and evolved over time. Evolution is caused by many factors some of which include natural selection, mutations, genetic drift, neutral or random evolution, migration or gene flow. Unlike evolution, many species are being extinct such as the Baiji River Dolphin, the Javan tiger, and golden toad. Before these organisms extinct, they were first endangered. An endangered specie is a specie on the brinck of extinction. This is the case of the swift fox, also known as Vulpes velox. For decades, scientists have thrived to keep the Vulpes velox from extinction through many means. To understand the swift foxes’ lifespan, one must learn their history and background, reasons they’re declining in numbers, historical homeland and present homeland and finally factors that caused this decline.

The Santa Catalina Island Fox (Urocyon litroralis catalinae) is a close relative to the mainland gray fox and they are endemic to Channel Islands. Using genetic testing and the morphological species concept, scientists have identified that U.l. catalinae are introduced from mainland to the island by Native Americans about 10,000 to 13,000 years ago (USFWS 2015). Originally, these foxes occupied several different islands such as Santa Cruz Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Island and San Clemente Islands. Most fox populations on these islands were listed as Endangered under the Endangered Species Act in March, 2004 due to its drastic decline in number of individuals (USFWS 2004). For the recovery plan analysis, I will only focus on U.l.catalinae because this subspecies remained listed as Threatened while all other subspecies on other islands were already delisted as of August 8, 2016 (USFWS 2016).

but they terrorized the British Army in South Carolina and Georgia with a series of hit and run raids in the face of overwhelming odds. Marion and his men would strike swiftly and then vanish into the swamps. His tactics were so effective that he was nicknamed “The Swamp Fox” by one very frustrated British general.

The way they heard is they bite or nip at the sheeps ancels, it helps point the sheep into the right direction. Or they would even circle around them and run in front of them so the sheep know where to go. Aussies love to boss around livestock. For them it's fun, and there breed is known to do that. Aussies need to have good hearing and eyesight to do their job. Brian Schmidt once said, “ Austallains have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that's why I love Australian Shepherds so much”. Like for instance when I got my aussie apparently she didn't have “good hearing” so she wasn't able to go the job, so we adopted her, but her hearing is PERFECTLY fine. They are great as pets also. They love to be outside being outside is their favorite things, like chasing squirrels or balls and being on a long strip of grass and just

Aboriginal and Torres Trait Islander people migrated to Australia from Asia and Africa about40,000 years ago.They had a nomadic lifestyle.They hunted animals for food and used weapons made of wood and metal to hunting eg:-Boomerang.

Many threats to the red wolf include loss of habitat and ecosystem due to human activities such as deforestation and degradation of environment agriculture and shooting as well as climate change as red wolves generally prefer swampy wet lands.

It is evident that in this case confidentiality was very limited. Living on the reservation in such a tight-knit community creates very little room for privacy for a family. This privacy can usually be invaded by other members of the community and even sometimes government officials of the community. The worker in this case was limited to what confidential information she could obtain about the Red Fox family. During the assessment phase, the worker wanted to view more of the history of the Red Fox family and their past intervention experiences. This confidential information required permission from the family for the worker to view. John did give permission for this to happen and the worker was able to view a larger amount of information

The kangaroo represents Australia’s cultural and social background and is internationally recognisable. It represents the Australian character in many ways including: Its size, strength and speed, which make it a national logo/emblem for Australian organisations and especially sporting clubs. Kangaroo’s are also symbolic of another Australian trait; to stick up for your self and not back down. With their large feet and long tail kangaroos find it hard to move backwards, indicating that Australians are people who are moving forward and growing as people of Australia.