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The Gray Fox |
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| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Class | Mammalia |
| Order | Carnivore |
| Family | Cannidae |
| Genus | Urocyon |
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By: www.Google.com |
| Small, gracile dogs with bushy tails. A buff neck, and the tip of the tail is black. Males are a little larger than females. Total length in millimeters is 800-1225 mm. With the tail being 275-443 mm and the hind foot 100-150 mm. Also Grey Fox's are related to the Red fox. |
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| Animal range |
| The Grey fox lives through out most southern half of North America from southern Canada. Also north Venezuela and Columbia. |
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| Food |
| First, the Grey fox is a solitary hunter meaning that it hunts alone. It eats a wide variety of animals such as the most important food the eastern cotton tail. The other foods that it eats just time to time is voles, field mice, Shrews and a huge variety of birds. |
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| Life cycle |
| The Grey Fox varies geographically. In Michigan they mate in a early March. In Alabama the mat in February. The gestation lasts, for 53 days. They usually have 4-10 pups. Three months they start to learn to hunt. after they leave their family and go find there own family and this keeps repeating. Also it lives an average of 15 years for male and female. |
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| What the animal needs to survive |
| One of the most important things is to the Grey fox is the deciduous forest. Eastern cotton tails. in the forest the Grey fox needs a mate and nice and warm den. Must be able to let its self to protected from rain. needs lake or river to bathe in and drink out of. |
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Six interesting facts that I learned about the Grey fox |
| 1.The Grey fox is more part of the dog family.
2.The Grey fox is a solitary hunter. 3.It eats mostly any bird around. 4.Its favorite food is a eastern cotton tail. 5.They climb trees. 6.Grey foxes are nocturnal or crepuscular and den during the day in hollow trees. |
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| Human Impact |
| The impact with humans is negative because Grey foxes usually eat poultry and game birds, but they are not a big of a threat to either |
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Books
The wonders of foxes
By Lavine Sigmund
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