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Within Vinony's link graph, swift fox is referenced by 564 other articles, and connects out to Cat, Hyaenidae and Canidae.
It is catalogued under topics including Commons link is on Wikidata, Fauna of the Great Plains and Fauna of the Plains-Midwest (United States).
Its subject is documented across 47 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Vulpes velox
- Commons category
- Vulpes velox
- Commons gallery
- Vulpes velox
- taxon common name
- Vulpe de prerie
- litter size
- 4.5
- longest observed lifespan
- 15.9
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
The swift fox (Vulpes velox) is a small light orange-tan fox around the size of a domestic cat found in the western Great Plains grasslands of North America, such as Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It also lives in southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada, where it was previously extirpated. It is closely related to the kit fox (V. macrotis) and some mammalogists classify them as conspecific. However, molecular systematics imply that the two species are distinct. Interbreeding between the two species does occur where their ranges overlap (eastern New Mexico and western Texas), but this hybridization is quite restricted in scope.
The swift fox lives primarily in short-grass prairies and deserts. It became nearly extinct in the 1930s as a result of predator control programs, but was successfully reintroduced later. Currently, the conservation status of the species is considered by the IUCN as Least Concern owing to stable populations elsewhere.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “swift fox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.