Red or Grey?
04-29-2008 | 12:20 PM
#32
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From: Howard PA USA
RE: Red or Grey?
Looks red to me. As a matter of fact I had one of those little critters go past me at about 50yds on saturday while I was turkey hunting. If anyone remembers my post about a month back about coming upon a murder scene in the woods where I found a turkey that was killed by something. Well my best guess says that this red fox I saw on saturday had something to do with that.
04-29-2008 | 12:23 PM
#33
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From: Dover, PA USA
RE: Red or Grey?
A grey fox is just a color phase of a red fox, just as a cinnamon is a color phase of a black bear; so yes, it is a red fox.
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/wildlife/living/living_with_foxes.htm
I think you are confusing the term "Grey" with a Silver Fox which IS a color phase of a Red Fox.
I have a lot of experience hunting trapping and handling foxes, trust me that picture is a Red fox. When you learn the difference in builds and colorations they really don't look very similar at all. Sort of like standing a Mule deer next to a Whitetail.........to someone who doesn't know deer they are both simply DEER.
Just based on the body attitude, stance and leg length I can tell it's a Red fox even if you turned the picture black and white and cut off it's head.
04-29-2008 | 01:01 PM
#36
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From: Howard PA USA
RE: Red or Grey?
ORIGINAL: Rick James
I think it's a mountain lion. [8D]
I think it's a mountain lion. [8D]
04-29-2008 | 01:49 PM
#37
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From: Kodiak, AK
RE: Red or Grey?
Well I'll be dipped. I stand corrected. We have silvers, crosses (that I often hear referred to as greys) and reds up here which are all red foxes: Vulpes vulpes but you are correct the grey fox or tree fox is Urocyon cinereoargenteus. I can go home and have a beer now, I learned my something new for the day.
http://www.greyfoxwebworks.com/greyfox.html
Thanks Matt!
After looking at all that I still think it's a red.
http://www.greyfoxwebworks.com/greyfox.html
Thanks Matt!
After looking at all that I still think it's a red.
ORIGINAL: Matt / PA
Maybe in Alaska? But in the rest of the US they are 2 entirely different animals.........LOL
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/wildlife/living/living_with_foxes.htm
I think you are confusing the term "Grey" with a Silver Fox which IS a color phase of a Red Fox.
I have a lot of experience hunting trapping and handling foxes, trust me that picture is a Red fox. When you learn the difference in builds and colorations they really don't look very similar at all. Sort of like standing a Mule deer next to a Whitetail.........to someone who doesn't know deer they are both simply DEER.
Just based on the body attitude, stance and leg length I can tell it's a Red fox even if you turned the picture black and white and cut off it's head.
A grey fox is just a color phase of a red fox, just as a cinnamon is a color phase of a black bear; so yes, it is a red fox.
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/wildlife/living/living_with_foxes.htm
I think you are confusing the term "Grey" with a Silver Fox which IS a color phase of a Red Fox.
I have a lot of experience hunting trapping and handling foxes, trust me that picture is a Red fox. When you learn the difference in builds and colorations they really don't look very similar at all. Sort of like standing a Mule deer next to a Whitetail.........to someone who doesn't know deer they are both simply DEER.
Just based on the body attitude, stance and leg length I can tell it's a Red fox even if you turned the picture black and white and cut off it's head.
