You might not notice them during your walk to class, but they’re there. Endangered San Joaquin kit fox pups have been discovered on the CSU Bakersfield campus.
Taking a walk on campus, you expect to see birds, squirrels, maybe the occasional stray cat. But at Cal State Bakersfield, you can also find endangered San Joaquin kit foxes.
Julian Calvillo, is a Graduate Student Researcher at CSUB, and he says, “The kit fox tends to hang around, especially on campuses. You’ll also find them on high school campuses, just like schools in general, with their large green areas and lack of predators. It makes a pretty safe zone. Their primary diet consists of kangaroo rats, not squirrels, but when they can’t take down a squirrel, they’ll eat trash.”…