page_title: List of mammals of Wyoming
section_title: Swift fox
hierarchical_section_title: List of mammals of Wyoming / Large and medium sized mammals / Swift fox
caption_attribution_description: English: A Swift Fox at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska.
context_page_description: There are at least 18 large mammal and 103 small mammal species known to occur in Wyoming.
  Species are listed by common name, scientific name, typical habitat and occurrence. The common and scientific names come from the American Society of Mammalogists' Wyoming Mammal List.
context_section_description: Order: Carnivora, Family: Canidae
  Occurrence: Short-grass prairies and deserts
  The swift fox (Vulpes velox) is a small light orange-tan fox around the size of a domestic cat found in the western grasslands of North America, such as Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. It also lives in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada, where it was previously extirpated. It 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.
  The swift fox lives primarily in short-grass prairies and deserts. Due to predator control programs in the 1930s, it was considered extinct in Canada for some time, but reintroduction programs have been successful in reintroducing the species. Due to stable populations elsewhere, the species is considered by the IUCN to be of least concern.
caption: Swift fox
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