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In the News (Thu 28 Aug 08)

  
  Foxes: The Red and the Gray
Gray foxes are known to be native to North America, but whether the red fox was ever native is a subject of debate.
Foxes are close relatives of coyotes, wolves, and domestic dogs, but they are often called the "catlike canines." Red foxes avoid coyotes, but may coexist in the same area, competing with them for food sources and often using shore and stream habitat between coyote territories.
Because there is a great variety of color types among foxes, it is not always a sure bet that a red-colored fox is a "red fox" or a gray-colored fox a "gray fox." Red foxes are distinguishable from gray foxes by the tips of their tails, which are white.
www.hsus.org /ace/19445   (883 words)

  
 CT DEP: Gray Fox Fact Sheet
Gray foxes tend to be active from the late evening hours until dawn.
The gray fox has a voice similar to the red fox, but barks or yaps less often than the red fox and its voice is louder.
Foxes often carry their prey to a secluded area or their den where it is eaten by the adults and young.
dep.state.ct.us /burnatr/wildlife/factshts/gryfox.htm   (1113 words)

  
 Gray (Silver) Fox
The gray fox is at the northern limit of its ecological range here in Wisconsin and are rare in the northern half of the state.
Fox may be hunted without any hunting hours restrictions except during the bow bear or bow deer seasons when hunting hours apply to all bow hunting and during the regular gun deer season when hunting hours apply to all bow and gun hunting.
Gray foxes tend to feed at night, at the slightest hint of hunting pressure, or under the cover of low light conditions during early morning and pre-dawn hours, but during winter months or particularly after storms, they may be willing to move throughout the day.
www.wisconsinhunter.com /Pages/grayfox.html   (1647 words)

  
 NTA - Gray Fox
Gray foxes are often more aggressive than red fox and an abundance of gray fox will prevent an abundance of red fox in the same habitat.
The gray fox is often confused with the red fox because the gray has rusty-red fur on its ears, ruffs and neck.
Gray fox seldom are seen because they are normally active only during the night and because of the brushy habitat they frequent.
www.nationaltrappers.com /grayfox.html   (1171 words)

  
 SUNY-ESF: Adirondack Ecological Center
Description: Grizzled gray upperparts, a flish band on each side of the muzzle, and a fl-tipped tail are some of the characters by which the gray fox differs from the red fox.
The earliest record of the gray fox in the Adirondacks are from the present century, especially the period, 1930-40.
The gray fox may rest in the open ar in dens located in the abandoned barrows of other mammals, but are more often in hollow logs and trees, brush piles, and under or among rocks.
www.esf.edu /aec/adks/mammals/gray_fox.htm   (816 words)

  
 Red Fox - (Vulpes vulpes), Gray Fox - (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
Gray foxes tend to be smaller, although their extremes in length and weight are similar to red foxes.
The mating period of red foxes is usually in January and February; in gray foxes, the peak occurs in February or early March.
Red fox litters generally are born in March or April while gray fox litters arrive from March to mid-May. There are one to 10 young in a litter, but the usual number is between three and six.
www.mdc.mo.gov /nathis/mammals/fox   (1116 words)

  
 GRAY FOX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The gray fox track is smaller and rounder than that of the red fox and, except for the claw marks, might be mistaken for that of a bobcat.
Gray fox primarily inhabit deciduous forest areas of central and extreme southeastern Minnesota, although they occasionally may be found in almost any area of the state.
Gray fox and red fox are rather intolerant of one another, but since their specific habitat preferences often separate them spatially, they often occupy the same general areas.
www.mntrappers.com /grayfox.html   (339 words)

  
 Gray Fox
Foxes belong to the dog family, Canidae, and are dog-like in appearance.
The gray fox is a medium size animal measuring roughly 3 ½ feet from nose to tail.
The gray fox has a course, salt and pepper gray coat with buffy under fur and a long, bushy, fl-tipped tail with median fl stripe down its length.
www.scwildliferescue.org /fox.htm   (347 words)

  
 Gray Fox - Nature Snapshots: Minnesota DNR
Gray fox compete with red fox for food, but their main predator is probably the coyote.
Gray fox inhabit the woodlands from southeastern to northwestern Minnesota, but are uncommon in the southwestern farmlands and the northeastern forests.
The gray fox is classed as a furbearer, and is managed with a regulated hunting and trapping season each year.
www.dnr.state.mn.us /snapshots/mammals/grayfox.html   (350 words)

  
 Gray Fox
The gray foxes' body is similar to a red fox with a slender body and long legs, but its ear and muzzle are not as large or pointed respectively.
Gray foxes are monogamous, meaning that the male mates with only one female and that those two form a pair bond, working together to care for their offspring.
Female gray foxes carry their young for nearly two months (53 days); as such, most gray fox kits are born in April or May. Litters typically are made up of four or five kits.
www.dnr.state.oh.us /wildlife/Resources/wildnotes/grayfox.htm   (889 words)

  
 Gray Fox Life and Habitat
While the red fox is normally found in dirt dens located in broken farm country, the native gray fox is normally found in rock dens or in hollow logs and stumps in mountainous forest land.
The gray fox is a tiny bit smaller than the red fox, typically weighing in at 7 to 14 pounds, and with a chest of 12 to 13 inches in diameter.
The gray fox is found throughout the eastern United States and in the western states north to northwestern Oregon, central Nevada, and northern Colorado.
www.terrierman.com /lifehabitatGrayFox.htm   (334 words)

  
 WildWNC.org : Animals : GRAY FOX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gray foxes have been known to climb trees to find refuge from a threat, or to forage for eggs or fruit.
The gray fox belongs to the genus, Urocyon.
Gray foxes have historically been hunted for their pelts, and still are during trapping season.
wildwnc.org /af/grayfox.html   (542 words)

  
 Gray Foxes of the Savannah River Site
fox populations comes from harvested populations, whereas virtually nothing is known of gray fox populations protected from harvest and harassment.
Furthermore, gray foxes on the SRS in the 1950s were not expected to live beyond 7.2 years, but now the maximum age is expected to be 14.0 years.
Most gray fox research indicates that population density ranges from 0.15 to 0.83 gray fox/km2, whereas density on the SRS is approximately 1.0 gray fox/km2.
www.uga.edu /srel/Fact_Sheets/gray_foxes.htm   (1091 words)

  
 Common Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
This fox is adept at climbing trees, particularly if they are leaning or have branches within 3 m of the ground, and it is not unusual for it to use this escape device when pursued by hounds.
Gray foxes usually den in crevices in the rocks, in underground burrows, under rocks, in hollow logs, or in hollow trees.
Gray foxes are thought to live six to 10 years in the wild.
www.nsrl.ttu.edu /tmot1/uroccine.htm   (627 words)

  
 Gray Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The gray fox is a member of the dog family.
Foxes are found in the brushy foothillls and the outlying areas around Sacramento.
The gray fox is the only fox, or member of the dog family, that can climb a tree.
vme.net /dvm/ARNHA/fox.html   (147 words)

  
 Gray Fox / Furbearers / Furharvesting / Hunting / KDWP - KDWP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The gray fox is extremely quick and agile like the red, and is recognized by many furharvesters as the more aggressive and less wary of the two.
Gray foxes are unique among Kansas canids in that they are excellent tree climbers, a trait hat allows them to escape coyotes or other potential predators, survey an area for food, rest in safety, or sometimes even to secure a den in a hollow tree.
Gray fox fur is shorter and more coarse than that of the red fox, and the pelts are not as valuable.
www.kdwp.state.ks.us /news/hunting/furharvesting/furbearers/gray_fox   (540 words)

  
 Gray & Fox Squirrels
Fox (sciurus niger) and gray (sciurus carolinensis) squirrels are both considered tree squirrels, even though fox squirrels spend most of their time on the ground.
Gray squirrels are primarily forest dwellers, preferring mature hardwoods with bushy undergrowth and nearby streams and lakes.
Fox squirrels are most often found in open agricultural areas with oak and hickory woodlots, often traveling along fencerows, and hardly ever in city parks.
www.wisconsinhunter.com /Pages/squirrels.html   (1648 words)

  
 Grey Fox - Urocyon cinereoargenteus
The grey fox is 21 to 30 inches long, and its tail is another 11 to 16 inches long.
The father, or dog fox, stays with the female until the pups are born, and is then thrown out of the den by the female.
The grey fox is a solitary hunter, and eats a lot of different things such as berries, nuts, birds, insects, rabbits and other rodents.
www.blueplanetbiomes.org /grey_fox.htm   (742 words)

  
 Welcome to the DNR Division of Fish and Wildlife Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gray foxes probably prefer to dine on meat, but when rabbits, mice, poultry, and birds are not easily obtainable, a wide variety of vegetable matter is consumed.
The gray fox pelt is not as desirable as the red fox because it is more course; however, the pelt in recent years has become useful as trim for coat collars and for similar uses in the fur industry.
Gray foxes are subjected to canine diseases and parasite infections such as distemper, parvovirous, heartworm and in rare instances, rabies.
www.in.gov /dnr/fishwild/publications/lifeseries/gfox.htm   (798 words)

  
 The Eastern Gray Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The average gray fox is 32 to 45 in.
Gray foxes are grayish on the top of their bodies and are reddish on the bottom of their bodies and on the back of their heads.
Gray fox tracks, when straight, are similar to a large cat.
www.k12.de.us /warner/grayfox.htm   (395 words)

  
 BBSP-Gray Fox Fact Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gray Foxes are extremely secretive with excellent senses of sight, hearing and smell, sometimes making them very difficult to locate.
Gray Foxes are social animals, normally living in a group with an adult male and female and several juveniles.
The Gray Fox is one of the most important fur-bearing animals in Texas.
www.bbspvo.org /animals/factsheets/mammals/grayfox.htm   (267 words)

  
 Gray Fox - Metal Gear - A Wikia wiki
Gray Fox is the codename of FOXHOUND agent Frank Jaeger.
Fox's objective was to gather data on a top-secret nuclear weapon that the fortified state of Outer Heaven was secretly developing.
However, Fox was severely injured during the second assault (one of his arms was sliced off by the tank's laser) and was pinned against a wall by REX before being released to fall to the ground.
metalgear.wikia.com /wiki/Gray_Fox   (1390 words)

  
 WildWNC.org : Animals : GRAY WOLF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gray wolves are quite variable both in size and coloration, depending on the area where they occur.
Gray wolves are highly social animals, living in packs averaging around seven or eight animals.
The female wolf with the large amount of gray shading in her coat is the lowest ranking of the three siblings.
wildwnc.org /af/graywolf.html   (780 words)

  
 Gray Fox (DesertUSA)
The Gray Fox is the only member of the dog family that can climb trees, usually to seek refuge or in search of roosting birds.
The Gray Fox is smaller in size than the Coyote -- usually 32 to 45 inches long, and weighs 7 to 11 pounds.
Although primarily nocturnal, The Gray Fox may sometimes be seen foraging during the day, seeking primarily small mammals, but being an omnivore, it will also eat eggs, insects, birds, fruits, acorns and berries.
www.desertusa.com /nov96/du_gfox.html   (452 words)

  
 Gray Fox - Jasper Wildlife
gray foxes are unique among canids in their ability to climb trees.
gray foxes are nocturnal or crepuscular and den during the day in hollow trees, stumps or old woodchuck burrows.
gray foxes are found in deciduous woodlands, but are occasionally seen in old fields foraging for fruits and insects.
jasperwildlife.com /Gray-Fox-Jasper-Wildlife.html   (234 words)

  
 NatureWorks - Gray Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The gray fox is a peppery gray on top, reddish-brown on its sides, chest and the back of its head.
The gray fox lives in a wide variety of habitats but prefers areas with lots of brush or woods.
The gray fox is a solitary hunter and eats a wide-variety of foods.
www.nhptv.org /natureworks/grayfox.htm   (284 words)

  
 Foxes in Massachusetts
The red fox and gray fox are common and abundant in Massachusetts and can be found throughout the state, except Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Foxes are members of the dog family Canidae, and their general appearance is similar to domestic dogs and coyotes.
The adult red fox weight is from 6 to 15 pounds, but it appears heavier than it actually is. The red fox is usually recognized by its reddish coat and fl "leg-stockings." Red is the most common color, but the hair may be from light yellow to deep auburn red.
www.mass.gov /dfwele/dfw/dfw_foxes.htm   (831 words)

  
 FWC - Critter Questions - Gray Fox
Because the gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) frequently has quite a lot of red hair, it may be confused with the red fox, and is sometimes referred to as a "red-sided gray".
The gray fox sometimes referred to as the "tree fox" can scramble-up a tree quickly, and is the only member of the dog family capable of climbing.
While gray fox serve to maintain a balance in the rodent and rabbit populations, they, in turn, are preyed upon by dogs and bobcats, and young fox may fall to the owl, hawk, or coyote.
wld.fwc.state.fl.us /critters/grayfox.asp   (449 words)

  
 Gray Fox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) is a species of fox ranging from southern Canada, throughout most of the lower United States and Central America, to Venezuela.
The throat and undersides are whitish, and the ventral surface of the tail tends toward a rusty brown.
Gray foxes are forest dwellers, and are the only other canids (besides raccoon dogs) able to climb trees.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gray_Fox   (456 words)

  
 Gray Foxes
It is the gray fox that is found in the desert- the only place reds are found in Arizona is in the extreme northeast corner (though I've heard rumors of them in other areas of the state).
Gray foxes are assumed to be monogomous- males may help with the pup-rearing but usually forage seperately from females, often not returning to the den as often as the female.
Foxes were active in their home areas from 25- 54% of the time during the day and from 77-87% during the night.
www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Rapids/9805/grayfox.html   (825 words)

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