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Gray fox - UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
The Name "Fox": "Fox" is the Old English word for the animal.
Location: Southern Canada to northern South America.
Habitat: Terrestrial. Broadleaf woodlands and rocky or bushy areas.
Description: The coat of the gray fox is dark gray on the back and reddish brown on the sides, neck, and legs. The underside is white. There are distinctive black, white, and orange markings on the face. The head and body is 21 to 29 inches long, with the tail adding 11 to 17 inches. The gray fox weighs nine to fifteen pounds.
Behavior: This fox climbs trees with great ease, where it raids nests and feeds on berries and fruit. It also eats small mammals, birds, and insects. It is nocturnal and only moves about during the day in extreme circumstances. The territory, which is patrolled nightly, may range up to 1600 acres. The dens may be underground, in hollow logs or in rocky crevices. It prefers to use dens already dug by another species.
Reproduction: During the mating season, which is from January to May, the den is lined with soft, dry material. After a gestation period of about 50 to 60 days, an average litter of four cubs is produced. By the age of four or five months, at the start of their first winter, the cubs are completely independent.
Go to the Carnivore Page to learn more about all the meat-eating animals.
Or go to the Fox Index to study other
foxes.
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