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Vulpes corsac🐺

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SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🐺Corsac fox

Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768)

روباه ترکمنی، روباه سردم سیاه، قَرساق یا فَنَک (نام علمی: Vulpes corsac) نوعی روباه است که در نواحی استپی، بیابانی، و نیمه‌بیابانی آسیای میانه زندگی می‌کند. این روباه کمی از روباه معمولی کوچکتر است و رنگ روشنی دارد. کُرساک نام این حیوان در زبان روسی میباشد.

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≈ 1/23rd of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
2.7 kg
Body length
0.59 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
14 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Corsac fox

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
2.7 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2.7 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.59 m
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Brain mass
36 g
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Maximum lifespan
14 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 13 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
5.95 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.8 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
54 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 53 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 5
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.7AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
2.7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Corsac fox yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyCanidae
  6. ›genusVulpes
  7. ›speciesVulpes corsac
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. suborderCaniformia
  4. familyCanidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyCanidae
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Closest relative on this site
🦊 Fennec fox — last shared an ancestor ≈ 3.3 million years ago.
What it eats
warm-blooded animals70%
insects and other invertebrates20%
leaves, roots and other plants10%
In other languages
Steppenfuchs (de), Vulpes corsac (fr), 沙狐 (zh), korsak (pl), 코사크여우 (ko), שועל קורסאקי (he) … and 23 more languages
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