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Gray Fox
Chris Garcia
Period 6
4/28/11
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Stats
• Light gray color on back, red on sides, chest, and on the back of head. White belly and chest.
• It is about 2 to 3 feet tall
• It can camouflage easy and has fast agility to catch its prey.
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Habitat
• Their habitats are located in the woods and brushy grass.
• Mainly woods or woodlands.
• The fox likes to burrow in logs or hide up In the trees during the day
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Habitat Range
• Their habitats range through out the U.S
• These habitats range from the east coast to west coast.
• Their habitats are really common on the west coast.
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Hunting
• Cottontail rabbits, mice, voles, and smaller mammals.
• Grasshoppers are a important part of the diet.
• This species has very few enemies that hunt gray fox. Also humans hunt these gray fox species for their fur.
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Food Source
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Population
• The gray fox has a big population in Arizona and all over the U.S.
• Hunters that like to hunt the gray fox makes the population size decrease. So far hunters have killed about 3,500 foxes.
Breeding
• Gray foxes mate from late January to May.• 2-7 gray foxes are born during the month of
march.• When they get at least 3 years old they can go
hunt on their own but when they are born the mother provides food for them.
• The male fox doesn't stay in the den with the babies, he goes out and hunts for food and brings back for the mother.
Works Cited
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?recNum=MA0019
http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/game_foxes.shtml