Southern California kit fox

 The Southern California kit fox (Vulpes Macrotis Macrotis), also known as the long eared kit fox, is an extinct subspecies of kit fox that lived in Southern California and the Northeastern tip of Arizona and was discovered in 1888 and kit foxes live in desert climates with bush and scrub with dried grass and it had a slim body, very long ears like some foxes of Africa, and a long bushy tail which would have accounted half of their total length. They were a light yellowish gray color with long legs and hairy feet with could grip on sandy surfaces just like a polar bear which uses its claws to grip on ice. And like bat eared foxes and fennec foxes of Africa, kit foxes were mainly carnivorous like tasty meals of mice and scorpions.. Many foxes were caught in traps and there was a pile of dead rabbits and coyote skins were sort after too. It was officially declared extinct in 1903 and it was also declared extinct in 1907 and 1910. There is another canid native to California and has very large ears but it's least concern, it's the California valley coyote. One of the Indian names for the kit fox was lousy thing because many were caught in traps. Its closest living relative is the endangered San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes Macrotis Mutica). It's a good thing the Arizona fox (Vulpes Macrotis Arsipus) is least concern and that subspecies lives in the Mojave desert. Of the 3 subspecies of kit fox, there are now only 2. The long eared kit fox was the nominate subspecies.