While they may be a bit smaller than your average house cat, what these ‘dwarf’ Island foxes lack in stature, they make up for in resilience.
Not long ago, the future looked bleak for the distinctly diminutive fox species that reside on California’s Channel Islands. In the mid-1990s, the island fox’s numbers had plummeted from the thousands to, in some cases, just over a dozen — raising alarms that the species would soon be extinct and prompting them to be classified as a ‘critically endangered’ species.
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