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Vulpes corsac🐺

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SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🐺Corsac fox

Vulpes corsac (Linnaeus, 1768)

Karsak (Vulpes corsac), korsak tilkisi, step tilkisi ya da bozkır tilkisi olarak da bilinir, köpekgiller (Canidae) familyasının asıl tilkiler (Vulpini) oymağına ait, Orta Asya'da yaygın olan bir tilki türü.

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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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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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