Madeline Ruebush took this photo of a California gray fox as it was sitting just outside the front door of the Museum on ...

A California Bureau of Land Management ... The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said San Joaquin kit foxes face a number of threats in the wild, such as habitat loss, diseases, wildfire and predation ...

The “slender mammals” can live up to seven years in the wild and up to 12 years in captivity, the nonprofit said. The kit fox, “endemic to California,” once wandered the “grassland ...