Structural Adaptations

One of the structural adaptations that the Swift Fox has is that it has two coats of fur - a brown one for the summer and a white one for the winter. The Swift Fox has two coats of fur to camouflage with its surroundings. Because Canada has basically two seasons, summer and winter, the Swift Fox needs to camouflage well for each of the season so that their prey or their preditors do not spot them. If the Swift Fox was, say... white, all year round then come summer, it would be very easy to spot them. The same situation would occur if the Swift Fox was brown all year round. This adaptation increases their survival and well-being in the wild.

Another structural adaptation that the Swift Fox has is that it has strong, sharp teeth to chew and eat their food. All carnivores - for example... a Swift Fox! - have sharp teeth to rip apart the flesh of their, now dead, prey. If the Swift Fox had flat teeth, like a herbivore, their teeth would be useless because they wouldn't be able to kill their prey or rip them apart. They would more or less be the prey themselves! Also, their teeth act like a defence mechanism. They show their teeth when they feel dangered - the bigger and sharper their teeth, the better.