#kit fox

"The Desert Hush"

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 1 - Part 2. 1925. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

This guy was super shy about cameras, so I don't have a ton of photos, but some is better than none!

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Kit Fox Vulpes macrotis

A fox species that inhabits arid and semi-arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico. Kit foxes are mostly nocturnal; they escape heat stress during the day by resting in underground dens. Pups emerge from the den at about one month of age and spend several hours each day playing outside the entrance. The male seems to do most of the hunting during this period, and later, both parents provide food until the pups start to forage with them at three to four months of age.

fuck it. autism poll. pictures of all the aforementioned foxes under the cut ⬇️