All About Animals!
All About Animals!
Views: 286Information The Sechuran fox (Lycalopex sechurae), also called the Peruvian desert fox or the Sechuran zorro, is a small South American species of canid closely related to other South American “false” foxes or zorro. It gets its name for…
Views: 218Information Rüppell’s fox (Vulpes rueppellii), also called Rüppell’s sand fox, is a fox species living in desert and semi-desert regions of North Africa, the Middle East, and southwestern Asia. It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN…
Views: 256Information The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and…
Views: 313Information The Pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus), also known as grey pampean fox, Pampas zorro, Azara’s fox, or Azara’s zorro (in Spanish also called aguará chaí, anglicized as aguarachay, in Portuguese also called graxaim), is a medium-sized zorro, or “false”…
Views: 280Information The pale fox (Vulpes pallida) is a species of fox found in the band of African Sahel from Senegal in the west to Sudan in the east. It is one of the least studied of all canid species,…
Views: 228Information The kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) is a fox species that inhabits arid and semi-arid regions of western North America, primarily in the Southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico. These foxes are the smallest of the three…
Views: 224Information The island fox (Urocyon littoralis) is a small fox that is endemic to six of the eight Channel Islands of California. There are six subspecies, each unique to the island it lives on, reflecting its evolutionary history. They…
Views: 199Information The hoary fox or hoary zorro (Lycalopex vetulus), also known as raposinha-do-campo in Brazil (Portuguese for “meadow fox”), is a species of zorro or “false” fox endemic to Brazil. Unlike many other foxes, it feeds primarily on small…
Views: 252Information The gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), or grey fox, is an omnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, widespread throughout North America and Central America. This species and its only congener, the diminutive island fox (Urocyon littoralis) of the California…
Views: 260Information The fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) is a small crepuscular fox native to the Sahara Desert and the Sinai Peninsula. Its most distinctive feature is its unusually large ears, which serve to dissipate heat. The fennec is the smallest…