One of the most endangered animals of California is the tiny San Joaquin Kit Fox. The Kit fox is roughly about the size of a common housecat, with features ranging from big ears and a long bushy tail and toes that are very furry, that help keep the Kit Fox cool in the dry environment that they place themselves into. From a distance these Foxes are hard to spot due to their particular size ranging as high as twelve inches in height and reaching as far as twenty inches in length. The average weight of each of the individual Foxes varies for each Fox, but on average is roughly around five pounds. The Kit Fox’s scientific name is Vulpes macrotis mutica, but its common name is desert fox. According to Defenders.org the San Joaquin Kit Fox was originally …show more content…
found mainly throughout the San Joaquin Valley in central California.
But in recent years the Kit Fox is now recently found on the edges of the San Joaquin Valley from southern Kern Country up to Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Joaquin countries on the west and up all the way until the Stanislaus Country on the east. Only small percentage of populations still are up to this day within the Valley floor.
According to eol.org Kit Foxes are mainly monogamous, which means that they usually mate for life. The specific mating patterns that occur within the Kit Foxes usually occurs from mid December to January, with litters being able to hold up to one to seven pups at a time. New born’s are weaned and nurtured up until about four weeks and usually become independent at around five to six months. It is not uncommon for young females to delay and completely skip their independence part of their lives to stay back in their homes in order to help raise the next litter of pups that are going to come. Individual Kit Foxes have been known to live up to seven years in the wild on their own. Kit Foxes are the types of animals that are most active in the night, but have a tendency to have crepuscular behavior. Upon finding a mate it is not uncommon for them to share the same dens throughout their year of life together. Each pair of foxes
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can use up to multiple dens for themselves and can even make the dens themselves out of modified burrows from other animals. Due to the Kit Foxes being mainly active at night, this leads many scientists to believe that they are most prone to danger throughout the day from any attackers or predators, so it is in their best interest to be most active throughout the night instead of the day. Kit Foxes are said to be the smallest animals within the candidate in North America. One key aspect that the Kit Fox has is their unique ears and how they are placed so closely together on their head. Their ears may vary from fox to fox, but range from 71 to 95 millimeters in height. The reason that the ears of these foxes come into effect is because of the role that they play dissipating the heat and how well they manage their hearing. Another distinctive characteristic is how they vary in color from yellow to gray. The way they are colored with is by having a dark colored back and light colored underside. One more characteristic about them that separates them from other animals is how they have dark and distinct patches on both sides of the nose and along the tail. With males being more dominant than the females they also vary in size as well with the average length being 485 to 520 millimeters and the males averaging roughly around 537. This varies within the females who usually fall in under 455 to 535 millimeters, with the average being roughly around 501. The tails also vary from male to female, with the males averaging around 2.29 and the females averaging 1.9 kg. Some other key and rather rare feature of the Kit Fox is that they are Endothermic, Homoiothermic, and bilateral symmetry. As for the sexual dimorphism the male is the much larger and therefore it is more superior to the female fox. According to blue planet biomes the San Joaquin Kit Foxes are the smallest or one of the smallest Foxes in America.
For the Kit foxes being so small in size they have some rather large characteristics and features about themselves counting from their large, but rather close ears, which helps them out with the heat in the specific environment that they put themselves into. The Kit fox has a slender body which includes a busy tail that is straight and tipped back in the end and irregularly large legs. One interesting feature of the Fox is that its color varies with the season, which ranges from tan to buff gray in the summer, and then to silver gray in the winter. For traction on the sandy soil of their natural habitat the Kit Foxes use the dense hair that is found in-between their footpads. But the dense hair that is found in between their footpads is not only used for traction it also helps them out from the heat from that the sand has to offer. When the female fox gets pregnant their pregnancy can last as long as 48 to 52 days. Upon pregnancy the female foxes can have as many as 3 o 5 pups born at a time. The Kit foxes are able to make several dens to house their pups within their dens. Once the female foxes have given birth it is up to the male foxes to go out and provide for the both of them, due to the female fox staying back and nursing the pups. It is shortly after one month that the pups are weaned are on their own leaving the den and go start their own new life
alone. It is when the foxes hit the age of four to five months that they are truly able to provide for themselves and find their own food. It is not that uncommon to find that the female foxes o stay longer and help the mother nurture the pups and eventually end up leaving on their own shortly after a year has gone by. The average lifespan of a Kit fox is known to be around seven years on their own I the wild, but have also been known to live for up to ten years in captivity. Kit foxes are solitary animals meaning that they prefer to live out in the wild either by themselves or within a small pack and not a large one. The origin of the San Joaquin Kit Fox is unknown, but the Kit foxes were really common up until the 1930’s. The reasoning for this is because people began to convert grasslands to farms and cities, therefore leading to a decline of the Kit foxes and currently now there are less than 7,000 Kit foxes in the world. Another factor that plays into this is the short lifespan of seven years that the Kit foxes have and the short amount of time that they spend in the wild on their owns. The Ideal habit for the Kit foxes are in deserts or arid lands mainly found in western part of North America. This region is found as long as from southern California to western Colorado. It can even range as far as western Texas and both southern Oregon and Idaho. As far as Mexico goes it is only found across the Baja California peninsula and northern Sonora and Chihuahua. Ultimately it can be found at Nuevo Leon, and south into northern Zacatecas. According to eol.org its habitat can be found by the Sierra Juarez and San Pedro Martir oak forest. This region is located in two mountain ranges found in Baja California and Mexico. Both of the mountain ranges belong to the province of Baja California. The range of the mountain descends and becomes a rather large portion of Baja California. These altitude can range anywhere from 1100-2800 meters. The choice of mountain ranges that that the Kit foxes chose has a very rocky soil and is very poorly developed, and is surprisingly low in organic matter. The Kit Fox lives in arid regions due to the desert scrub. The ideal region for the Kit foxes are chaparral, halophytic, and grasslands. The Kit fox is mainly found in rather higher elevations ranging from 400 to 1,900. It is not uncommon for Kit foxes to prefer loose textured soils for their denning. Kit foxes love to use and inhabit agricultural lands. According to defenders.org the Kit Fox’s population rises and falls along with the amount of rainfall. This means that their existence relies on the annual rainfall meaning that the more rainfall that hits around them and their area of living means that there will be more Kit Foxes around and when there is less rainfall their population will decline. The Kit Fox’s existence relies heavily on climate change and the way precipitation patterns occur within their area. Due to the climate change occurring all throughout the years led to a population decline to the Kit fox leaving their population fewer than 7,000 within the world. According to blue planet biomes Kit fox’s diet consist of ground squirrels, birds, gophers, and lizards, and other sorts of rodents. Their diets also consist of eating kangaroo rats, mice, and ground nesting birds. The reasoning for their specific source of food is because Kit fox’s are omnivores. The Kit fox’s predators consist of coyotes and red foxes. Men also play a huge factor into their population decline because of them being basically target practice. All throughout California defenders of wildlife have been working vigorously to save the Kit foxes and their habitat, by spreading the word around for saving the native grassland in their natural habitat. Defenders has formed an alliance that was rather rare, but was formed with the California Cattlemen’s Association, which led to them forming and merging with another group called California Rangeland Conservation Coalition, which is a remarkable association that has greater than fifty members behind them to save an abundance of about thirteen million acres of land all throughout the Central Valley. This is very beneficial to the Kit foxes because roughly more than about one million of those acres that are being restored and are under watch belong to the homes of the San Joaquin Kit foxes. This gives them an advantage in the future because helping them out now with their natural habitat decline will prevent and ultimately fix their population decline problem by restoring and giving their habitat back to them and stopping them from becoming extinct in the future. With defenders helping them out so much gives them back their homes and restoring the natural grasslands that is their homes, so it is both beneficial to the Kit foxes and the environment at the same time.
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