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San Joaquin kit fox male🐺

Photo: Peterson B Moose, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain

SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🐺Kit fox

Vulpes macrotis Merriam, 1888

敏狐（學名：Vulpes macrotis）是狐屬的一种，栖息在北美西部的干旱和半干旱地区，主要生活在美國西南部以及墨西哥北部和中部。此種狐狸是北美原生的四種狐狸中最小的，也是全球最小的狐狸之一。由于其耳朵很大，有极佳的听觉，所以敏狐也被一些人視為非洲物種耳廓狐在北美洲的對應物種。

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≈ 1/30th of your weight
Also called
Desert Fox
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
2.09 kg
Body length
0.51 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Everything we know about the Kit fox

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

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

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  • 2.5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.51 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

Age at maturity
1.0 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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  • 54 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Carnivore
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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

Home range
8.1 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
0.19 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
2.1 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 Kit 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 macrotis
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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What it eats
warm-blooded animals60%
insects and other invertebrates30%
reptiles, fish and amphibians10%
In other languages
Kitfuchs (de), Vulpes macrotis (es), renard nain (fr), Lis długouchy (pl), 키트여우 (ko), שועל מקרוטיס (he) … and 22 more languages
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