2. This presentation is about kit foxes. The scientific
name is Vulpes macrotis. The kit fox is also
called a swift fox. You will learn many things
such as their diet, habitat, range, map of range,
family life, life cycle, anatomy, and interesting
facts.
3. Kit foxes favor arid climates such as desert
scrub, chaparral and grasslands. They live in
open prairie and grassland plains of west and
central North America into the drier semi-
deserts and true deserts of the southwest
United States. Habitats are meadows and
woodlands in North America. In the Mojave
Desert the occupying burrows in sand dunes or
under grass mounds
4. They live in North America and are found only in
northern South America. They live in the arid
interior ranges of Oregon. Its eastern limit is
southwestern Colorado. It can be found in the
Southwest through Nevada, Utah southern
California, Arizona, New Mexico and into
western Texas
5.
6. The diet includes frogs , cottontail rabbits ,
salmon , and lizards.
7. Wild foxes live two or three years. Babies are
born in a den. Baby foxes are called kits.
When these kits are one month old, they are
ready to explore. The young foxes stay near
their den at first. Then they learn to stalk and
hunt. A kit fox sets out on its own after about
six months. This kit fox is a grown up.
10. The kit fox can have more than 3 babies in their
family. Kit foxes are among the smallest foxes
of the Americans. Male and female kit foxes
usually established monogamous mating pairs
during October and November.
