swift fox

noun

1. Also called: kit fox. a small fox, Vulpes velox, of the plains of W North America

Example Sentences

But just moments before he faded away, a bushy-tailed Swift Fox no bigger than a house cat swiped him up and gobbled him.

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Tribal elders speak nostalgically of the long-gone Swift Fox Society, which prized the secretive, rarely seen animals and used their pelts and tails to adorn hair braids and costumes.

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“Prairie dogs, wolves, swift fox, red fox, black-footed ferrets.”

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White already has trappers in several states working to catch bobcats, gray fox, swift fox, more coyotes.

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Their carcasses support swift fox, golden eagles, grizzly bears, wolves, all the way down to beetles and nematodes.

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