CHARACTERISTICS OF SWIFT FOX DENS IN NORTHWEST TEXAS. But as agriculture and settlements overtook open grasslands, swift fox numbers declined precipitously. Highly adapted for living in open desert with large ears for keeping cool, the kit fox can also get all the water it needs from its diet, which consists of kangaroo rats, mice, lizards, birds, insects, berries, seeds, and other desert flora and fauna. These swift fox pups make their home in Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan, Canada. Brady K. McGee. The swift fox is a small fox around the size of a domestic housecat and is found in the western grasslands . 1, Kerry L. Nicholson , Warren B. Ballard. The kit fox of West Texas is less than half the size of a gray fox and at only 3 to 6 pounds is the smallest of Texas’ foxes. BASIC FACTS ABOUT SWIFT FOX. 2004 Jul;40(3):543-7.
Pence DB(1), Kamler JF, Ballard WB. Suitable swift fox habitat was generally defined as extensive in size (preferably over 100,000 acres), with relatively level topography, and with greater than 50% of the area undisturbed by agriculture. This project proposes three innovative actions to increase swift fox survival and expansion while providing economic gain and quality of life enhancement for the residents of northwest Texas. 1. In Canada and northern Montana, Moehrenschlager et al. 1,2, and Matthew J. Butler. A total of 8,000,000 suitable acres were identified in Montana (Giddings and Knowles 1995). Author information: (1)Department of Pathology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, Texas 79430, USA. They will eat grass and fruit when they are able to find it. DIET. 1.
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The project is jointly funded by NRCS-TX via the Texas CIG grant and Texas Tech University.
J Wildl Dis. Although historically common and widely distributed in short- and mixed-grass prairies of the Great Plains, swift foxes have experienced significant population declines and are now estimated to occupy less than half of their historic range in the United States. Historically, the range of this cat-sized fox stretched across the short grass prairies of Canada down through the central US to the Texas Panhandle. A. BSTRACT.—The swift fox (Vulpes velox) was classified in 1995 as a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act.