Re: Fox color variation
[Re: danvee]
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02/04/19 05:07 PM
02/04/19 05:07 PM
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waggler
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Alaska and Washington State
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The northern reaches of North America, and then down into the high elevations of the Cascade Mountain range of Washington and Oregon (I'm not sure about the northern Rocky's) is a native red fox that has a very high proportion of cross and silver/black foxes. Foxes found in the eastern part of the USA are rather recent immigrants resulting from introduced European red fox and possibly migration from western foxes. I don't believe that color phase foxes are very common in the foxes that were brought to North America from across the Atlantic. I imagine the English brought them from England for fox hunting. I was involved with supplying Cascade red fox carcasses from Washington State's Cascade Mountains for DNA analysis. The study showed that there has been no interbreeding of these high elevation native foxes and the low elevation introduced foxes. Crosses and blacks are very common in Cascade fox, and pretty much nonexistent in the introduced lowland fox. Interesting reading: https://www.mammalogy.org/articles/...ted-states-translocations-or-natural-ran
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Re: Fox color variation
[Re: danvee]
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02/05/19 01:22 AM
02/05/19 01:22 AM
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Danvee, based on another post you made about coyote vs cat catches up or down, there is a silver fox living within a few miles of you it is jet black I've seen it three times back in November. Was in the city limits near the river. Definitely did a double take the first time I saw it.
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Re: Fox color variation
[Re: danvee]
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02/06/19 07:29 PM
02/06/19 07:29 PM
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Idahotrapguy
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Here is southern Idaho I run about 20% crosses. Silvers are 1 out of 200 or so. One year I caught crazy amount though, 20 crosses and two silvers. In my experience he crosses are great fur quality and silvers are poor. No clue why
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