Talk:Swift fox

Wagginpitbull (talk) 22:36, 22 December 2021 (UTC)==Questions== How will extinction of swift fox affect other members of the habitat? how will extinction of swift fox affect humans?

In the first paragraph it says: "[The Swift fox] is closely related to the kit fox and the two species are sometimes known as subspecies of Vulpes velox because hybrids of the two species occur naturally where their ranges overlap." Vulpes velox is the swift fox, so it cannot be a subspecies of itself. Did it mean to say that the the swift fox and the kit fox are sometimes aknown as subspecies of Vulpes vulpes (red fox)? Or that the kit fox is sometimes known as subspecies of the swift fox?

Reversion of large edit
An anon had added a huge amount of stuff to this article to-day, making it rambling, disorganised and not properly referenced. I have reverted it for the time being because there is too much of it to clean up in one go. It's not exactly vandalism, and some of the material may well be appropriate, but it needs to be put in under suitable headings and referenced back to scientific and historical literature; also some of it looked POV. It can be recovered from the history files to be worked on. But basically it isn't appropriate to have such a hugely long article on one species like this.

Apologies to the anonymous editor concerned for reverting your material without discussing with you - but as an anon, you don't have a talk page, so it isn't possible to discuss it with you first. seglea 16:02, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Another such reversion
Two rapidly successive edits by one editor left the article virtually unreadable, eg "fox" changed to "fx", "kit" to "ktm" and possibly intentional "folksy" illiterate respellings. Pretty close to vandalism. I reverted both.--SilasW 14:43, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Map
The swift fox area map (Swift_Fox_area.png) does not appear to be correct as it does not show any distribution of swift foxes in "...the central part of Alberta, Canada" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.99.179.243 (talk) 02:13, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Image Report
Please note, the image labelled "Swift Fox" is of a kit fox - view the kit fox wiki page, same image is on there labelled "San Joaquin Kit Fox". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.240.87 (talk) 02:11, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

This issue has still not been effectively resolved. It appears someone has merely changed the brightness between the two images. --76.24.XX.XX|talk 22:45, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe this is because the Kit Fox and Swift Fox are closely related. However, I believe the current image is a Swift Fox, not a Kit Fox.  At least, the image page says it's a Swift Fox. Corvus coronoides  talk 22:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Look at the image linked from the Kit fox page: ; it provides the link to the US Fish & Wildlife Services page from which the picture was taken. That page identifies it specifically as a San Joaquin Kit Fox, not a Swift Fox. &mdash;Dajagr (talk) 03:04, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Reference
Which is the reference for "Sometimes it makes other burrows from other bigger animals, even though it is completely capable of digging one on its own."? -- NGC 54  ( talk   |  contribs  ) 16:07, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Weighting
Are they endangered 50.96.15.170 (talk) 21:41, 3 March 2023 (UTC)