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Vulpes ferrilata (Tibetan Sand Fox; Tibetan fox)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Tibetan sand fox (Vulpes ferrilata) is a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau, Ladakh plateau, Nepal, China, Sikkim, and Bhutan, up to altitudes of about 5300 m. It is classed as of "least concern" for extinction by the IUCN, on account of its widespread range in the Tibetan Plateau's steppes and semi-deserts.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
12
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.55
EDGE Score: 1.52
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.126 lbs (2.325 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  90 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [3]  100 %
Forages - Ground [3]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 4 months
Gestation [2]  55 days
Litter Size [2]  3
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  14 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  24 inches (60 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Qiangtang Nature Reserve 73637404 China      
Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve 37634150 Qinghai, China      
Wolong Nature Reserve V 826140 Sichuan, China  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Vulpes ferrilata (Carnivora: Canidae), HOWARD O. CLARK, JR., DARREN P. NEWMAN, JAMES D.MURDOCH, JACK TSENG, ZHENGHUAN H.WANG, AND RICHARD B. HARRIS, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 821:1–6 (2008)
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 45.6 Tibetan fox, Vulpes ferrilata, G.B. Schaller and J.R Ginsberg, Sillero-Zubiri, C., Hoffmann, M. and Macdonald, D.W. (eds). 2004. Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 430 pp.
♦ 5The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a keystone species for biodiversity on the Tibetan plateau, Andrew T. Smith and J. Marc Foggin, Animal Conservation (1999) 2, 235–240
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0