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Panther_99FS

Panther_99FS

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I managed to pull my car over and get a quick grab of this sickly fox on base.....

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That's because it's not a fox. :salute:


I can see how one would think it's a fox, maybe because of the tail, but my money's on coyote.
 
Don't look like a cayote either, at least not like those running around my place, which are solid brown.
 
tigisfat said:
That's because it's not a fox. :salute:


I can see how one would think it's a fox, maybe because of the tail, but my money's on coyote.
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After spending 9yrs in Arizona around Coyotes, I tend to disagree here....It's quite small also..
 
Last year, we had a very sickly looking Coyote around this area and looked similar to the one you 'shot', P. I haven't seen the poor thing in a long time; doubt it survived the winter.

Bob
 
Panther_99FS said:
Need some native Louisiana folks to step in here....LoL
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Why, so they can identify it as a montreauxbeauxtoufee?:icon_lol:


Seriously though, coyotes come in all shapes and sizes, and foxes don't. There are fatty black coyotes all the way to skinny red ones, even ones colored like german sheperds.
 
I was raised out in the woods about 75 miles north of Shreveport and it looks like a very ragged gray fox to me. I killed enough of them as a kid to recognize one. But I've never seen one still alive and in that bad a shape.
 
INFO>>> http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/game_foxes.shtml

There are three species of fox in Arizona - the red fox, kit fox, and gray fox.

Of these, the 5 ½ to 9 pound gray fox with its rust, black, and grizzled coloring and black longitudinally striped tail is by far the most common, occurring wherever there are mountains, wooded country, and broken terrain.
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They all look like that this time of year!
They are naturally shedding their 3rd layer of fur, the winter undercoat.
You should see a Collie in the Spring... :isadizzy:

Yes they really are that skinny under all that hair.
Give it a couple weeks it'll look like the one in the Arizona Fish & Game info site I posted above.
 
It looks more like a hyena than a fox. Cannot recall seeing a fox with that type of coloration. But the animal does look in poor health.

Ken

Edit: Dain, I'll take your word for it. You seem to know a lot more about this stuff than I do. :)
 
Well, what ever it is at least it's in focus. So we can rule out Bigfoot or a ufo.

Nice shot P.

Jim
 
Panther, you did say it was on base? Then it's a Cammo Fox. Very rare and changing into it's summer cammo. That's the reason for the coloration. ;)

And yes, due to the meger food scraps it's getting from the mess hall, it is skinny. :icon_lol:

Very pretty fox tho, I do hope it survives.
 
Man, that thing looks like its had better days. It looks like two patches of raw skin showing, one on the head. The hair looks burned.

Foxes are bright red and white and our local coyotes are a wierd colorless khaki color, like a beige or something. This guy looks like he was in a brush fire and escaped or something. He looks bad... Poor dude.

I wonder if he was hit by a car and survived. An oily bottomed car could have caused that, getting oil all over him. A semi?

Bill
 
Think Dain Arns has it nailed...

I believe it's a gray fox...fairly common in the South Western U.S., but we are in a transition time for their coats. Hard to tell.

And oddly enough....If it's a gray fox, it's not in particularly bad health. They are usually quite scrawny, and unlike other canine type animals...these can climb trees.


And no, it's definitely not a Nutria! :)
 
Well, whatever it is , Fox or Coyote, its a great shot Panther....
 
TeaSea said:
Think Dain Arns has it nailed...

I believe it's a gray fox...fairly common in the South Western U.S., but we are in a transition time for their coats. Hard to tell.

And oddly enough....If it's a gray fox, it's not in particularly bad health. They are usually quite scrawny, and unlike other canine type animals...these can climb trees.


And no, it's definitely not a Nutria! :)
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Exactly TeaSea.
Skinny is right. Only picture I could find, but here's one of its cousins, the Arctic Fox.
This one has a mouthful of Lemmings.

But I think it shows their body type well in the pic.
They can squeeze through some of the smallest openings.
Growing up, I remember we had a heck of a time making the chicken yard fox proof.
 
The Mange: it's a skin disease the coyotes and fox get, it effects their skin, ie fur color. Eventually it will all fall out and the animal will die. Don't you people ever spend any time in the woods looking at animals rather than watching them on tv?
 
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