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  1. devilfish

    devilfish Well-Known Member

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    Amazing work, TLD! I'll see if I can dig up much more. Meantime, here's a Japanese red fox: [​IMG]
     
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    What's next? I am really hoping for the rest of Carnivora (bears and pinnipeds).
     
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  3. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Correct - working on the post now.

    The thread will also cover the Hyenidae, rather than devoting a whole thread to four species :p even though this is not a taxonomically sound grouping.
     
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    Bears, Pinnipeds, Hyenas, oh my!
     
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    TZDugong Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Can anyone tell me the difference between the Japanese Racoon Dog and the Mainland Racoon Dog (other then the fact that one lives In Japan, and the other the mainland:p)? Judging from the photos on this thread, they look basically the same.
     
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  6. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    The Japanese species has shorter and thinner fur, significantly fewer chromosomes (38 as opposed to the 54 of the Mainland species), and tends to be more buffy in colour.
     
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    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Aren't many (namely eastern North American) populations of Red Fox thought to be hybrids with European animals?

    ~Thylo
     
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  8. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    That was the thinking for a long time, yeah, but it seems from genetic studies that there hasn't been all that much interbreeding relatively speaking.
     
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    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Well good, I'll have to update my lifelist :p :)

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    @TeaLovingDave The gallery of Zoológico Simón Bolívar contains photos of the (probably) Costa Rican subspecies of the Grey Fox. Did you see my post about the Ecuadorian Culpeo?
     
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  11. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    I'll get onto it :)
     
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  13. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Thanks to @sooty mangabey we now have a photo of Rueppel's Fox in the gallery:

    [​IMG]
     
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    I’m sure I can do better than this - this is taken from my phone; I’ve got some better pictures on my camera.
     
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  15. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Can easily swap it out once you've got those uploaded :)
     
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    Where'd you see it?

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    Ruppell’s Fox | ZooChat

    Oasys Mini Hollywood in Spain. If TLD put the collection name along with the photos in the threads it would be more helpful :p
     
    Chlidonias, 28 Jul 2018
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    Meantime I've found that if you right click the image, go to 'copy image address' then delete the word 'full' at the end of the URL, you'll have yourself a gallery link. :)
     
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    Just a quick update on my Canis latrans frustor photo. It turns out that the generally accepted dividing line between C. l. frustor and C. l. latrans runs fairly close to where this photo was taken. That being said, coyote taxonomy and subspecies is incredibly fuzzy anyway, so maybe it doesn't really matter.
     
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  20. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    I have now added a photograph of Blanford's Fox taken by @alexkant to the relevant part of the thread:

    [​IMG]

    I've also taken the opportunity to replace the existing Rueppel's Fox photograph with another - again taken by @alexkant - as it shows the general form of the species better:

    [​IMG]
     
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