What is the fox?
Kit Fox, sometimes called Desert Fox, is Vulpes Macrotis, the smallest of the three members of the Vulpes Foxes from North America. It is located in the drier parts of the American southwest and west, in Baja, California and in the middle and northern parts of Mexico. The fox of the set is closely related to the fast fox, Vulpes Velox, and although it has been proposed to be the same species, most of the authorities consider them different. They are predators, mainly living on small mammals and their population fluctuating with local prairies and rabbit populations. Although the species is not considered to be seriously endangered, the fragmentation of the habitats has led to a decrease in the population in some areas.
grassland, salt or peelingers, forest and sets of juniper and sets are preferred habitats for fox fox. It is also located in urban areas where there is enough cover to hide its activities. Range Kit Fox Extends to west of western Texas through New Mexico, Western Colorado, Utah, Nevada and South California and north to the southChodní Oregon and southwest Idaho. In Mexico, the fox is located in the northern parts of Sonora, North Chihuahu, Western Nuevo Leon and Northern Zacatecas and also the Baja Peninsula.
Kit Foxes live individually or in pairs in non -exclusive territories that can overlap each other. In their territories they have up to ten hoping they use all year round. Sometimes they take over underground structures dug up with prairies or badgers. They are night, stay in their lair during the day, and at night they appear to hunt prairie, rabbits, squirrels, small rodents and nesting birds.
total length from 2.3 to 2.75 feet (about 71 to 81 cm), foxes have large ears and narrow areas. Their coat is usually light shades of gray, yellow or buff with black charlings, black or brown mouth and black tip of the tail. Average 2.5 to 5.5 pounds (1.1 to 2.5 kg) in weight, while women are usually lighter but not shorter than men.
Their period of reproduction is December until February and puppies are born six weeks until two months later. Litches on average four or five children and parents are involved in care. Puppies are shut down around 8 weeks, start hunting with their parents in 12 to 16 weeks and leaving the care of their parents at the age of about 8 months.