- Comments:
Swift foxes are the smallest member of the dog family in North America.
Adults weigh less than typical house cats. Resembling small coyotes, they have a slender
body, long, pointed ears and a bushy tail with a black tip. Swift foxes live in
underground dens with several tunnels, rooms and entrances. Separate chambers are used for
sleeping and storing food. Hunting usually occurs at night. Litters of 3-6 pups are born
in late winter and early spring. They may live 5 years in the wild. Their most notorious
predators are coyotes.
- Distribution:
Swift foxes are found in arid and semi-arid regions from Mexico to southern Canada.
They are found in the shortgrass prairies and rangelands in the western third of Kansas.
- Food:
They feed on rabbits, hares, mice, rats, ground squirrels, insects, birds and small
reptiles.
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Carnivores
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