Posted in Carnivorans, wild dogs, wildlife, tagged gray fox, grey fox, North American gray fox, tree fox, urocyon, Urocyon cinereoargenteus on September 13, 2014| 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago I came across some gray fox tracks in the sand. They were very small, as you can tell by the comparison with the SD card.
(Don’t give me hell for where the SD card was made!)
I’ve been trying for two weeks to get one of these young gray foxes on trail cam video, but I haven’t had any luck.
Until this week:
Posted in wild dogs, wildlife, tagged gray fox, grey fox, tree fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus on November 30, 2010| 2 Comments »
Our mystery neonatal canid is a newborn gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus).
Both normal red and cross phase red foxes and gray foxes are born this ashy gray color. The way to tell the neonates apart is to look at the nails. Gray foxes have long, curved nails, which they utilize in their well-known arboreal habits. Gray foxes are so at home in the trees that some people call them “tree foxes.”
Of course, the other way to tell them apart is to look at their tails. All red foxes, regardless of phase, have white-tipped tails. Gray foxes never do.
I should note that I have some issues calling a gray fox a fox. They are not true foxes at all.
The two canids in the genus Urocyon are thought to represent a primitive line of the dog family that retained the ancestral carnivores’ ability to climb trees.
Natural History 