THREATENED SPECIES: GREY FOX

Information found by: Emily Duguay

SURVIVAL STATUS

is threatened and could become endangered

DIET (HOW DOES IT GET ITS ENERGY)

Bugs

Fruit

Vegetables

Small mammals

kingdom is the Animalia

Pllyum is the Chordata

class is the Vertebrate

Order is the Mammalia

Family is the Carnivora

Genus is the Canidae

Species is the Vulces

Classification System

MOSTLY GREY WITH SOME LIGHT CINNAMON PATCHES

Anatomy and appearance

HABITAT RANGE

IT LIVES IN FORESTS MARSHES AND PLACES BY WATER.

LIFE CYCLE OF A GREY FOX

Grey foxes go from pup to juvenile to young adult to adult.

REPRODUCTION AND YOUNGGREY FOXES STAY WITH THEIR MOM FOR ABOUT 18 MONTHS.

PREDATORS OF A GREY FOXPREDATORS ARE COYOTES ,GREAT HORNED OWLS, BOBCATS, GOLDEN EAGLES, DOGS AND HUMANS

GREY FOX BEHAVIOR

GREY FOXES CLAWS HE L P T

AND DIG FOR F OOD.

Grey Fox Behaviors

DEFENSE MECHANISMSIT CAN HIDE IN TREES.

THREATSTHE THREATS OF THE GREY FOX ARE PEOPLE ARE HUNTING THEM FOR SPORT

MORE THREATS FOR GREY FOXES

WHY IS HE HAPPY THATHE KILLED A GREY FOX? WHY DO PEOPLE TRAP GREY FOXES?

WHAT WE ARE DOING TO PROTECT GREY FOXES

It is now illegal to hunt them.

People are reducing the amount of food they leave in their back yard

INTERESTING FACTS

Did you know grey foxes are the only fox who can climb trees?

Did you know that grey foxes have a lot in common with the red fox?

Did you know that they can run up to 18 or 20 mph?

Did you know that they can live up to 8 years old?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Website Mauro, Bill Grey fox Ontario

October 28 2014

http://www.Ontario.ca/enviorment-and-energy/grey-fox

Book: Adrian Forsyth

Mammals of the Canadian wild.

N.D