Author: Brett Washechek

Works Sourced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Fox#Conservation_status
http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/41586/0

Darwin’s Fox

Brett Washchek
Luke Stratmoen

Endangered Animal Project 2012

General Information

Scientific Name: Lycalopex fulvipes
Dark fur coat
Smaller than the other species
Warm Blooded
Related to wolves
Doesn’t breed with other South American Foxes (commonly referred to as Zorros among the Spanish speaking population of South America)
Discovered by Charles Darwin off the coast of Chile

Lives in the temperate rainforests of South America
Lives on Chiole Island and Nahuelbuta National Park in Chile
Diet
Darwin’s fox eats mammals, reptiles, beetles, and invertebrates
It also eats fruits and berries
On occasion it will eat birds and amphibians
Omnivore
It also scavenges if needed

Habitat

Endangered Status

The Darwin’s Fox is critically endangered
Critically endangered is the second step above extinct
It’s thought that there is around 250 Darwin’s foxes on Chiole Island and around 50 on the mainland
Though the foxes are protected in Nahuelbuta National Park, they still die when the go into unprotected parts of the park