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Nezumi Fox Nyarko
Mr.Brookhart
Ecology
06 April 2016
Kit Fox
Kit foxes, also called Vulpes Macrotis are among the smallest foxes in America. The kit fox is very easily mistaken for a dog however when you look at their appearance you realize that proportions are not that of a dog's. Many people often confuse the kit fox with its larger cousin, the grey desert 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 paws are suited to fit their environment with dense fur in between their paw pads; this gives the fox better traction on the sand of its habitat while also protecting the fox's feet from the heat of the desert sand. Most Kit foxes tend to be around 1.5 to 2 feet long, with a tail length of 8 to 12 inches long, and tend to weigh around 3.5 - 28 pounds (“Desert Kit Fox, section I, …show more content…

In Mexico Biosphere Reserves of El Vizcaino, Mapimi, and El Pinacate, are in the Area of Special Protection of Cuatro Cienegas (Vulpes Macrotis Section VIII “conservation Actions”. In the United States “the Endangered subspecies V. m. Mutica occurs in the Carrizo Plain National Monument and various other federal, state, and private conservation lands (Vulpes Macrotis Section VIII “conservation Actions”). Poaching of the species is prohibited in Idaho, Oregon, and California, and the kit fox is a protected furbearer species in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.” (Kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) Section VII, “Kit fox conservation”). Some kit foxes are held for display and educational purposes, but no breeding efforts have been

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