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Topic: Black phase red fox
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Locohead
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posted February 05, 2010 06:19 PM
I saw one tonight. I've actually seen several. I was out in the country, getting near to a town. The fox ran across the road and into a 1/4 section property that was for sale. I had almost brought my mega BB gun with me. And if I had, I would of had one heck of a montster temptation on my hands - not having permission and all.
Anyone else ever seen solid black red foxes with only the tail tip white? They sure are pretty. I don't suppose they are all that rare. It is like the 3rd or fourth I've seen.
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Locohead
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posted February 05, 2010 06:28 PM
This is a silver/black phase. WOW!!! Had I seen this one and I had the .17, there would of been ZERO temptation - I'd of had a new pretty pelt!!! Pretty critters.
Here is a picture of the black phase just like the one I saw tonight:
P.S. I DO know how to spell monster! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
[ February 05, 2010, 06:38 PM: Message edited by: Locohead ]
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Cdog911
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posted February 05, 2010 07:12 PM
We used to have a bunch of different color phases around after a small tornado swept through a very small ranch fox farm near here. Used to have a couple cross foxes hanging around my old home town, too. Caught one with a slight cross pattern to it once. It sure was a nice looking pelt.
Seeing one that color would sure be a treat, Danny. Does anyone know if that is a normally and naturally occurring phase for them or is the one Loco saw likely to have been an escapee from a fur farm somewhere? Liberated by PETA...
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Leonard
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posted February 05, 2010 07:37 PM
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TA17Rem
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posted February 05, 2010 07:39 PM
The farther west and north you go the Silver and cross fox are more common..
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Locohead
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posted February 05, 2010 08:25 PM
Lance,
I'm not sure if this answers your question or not but the family and I once watched a momma fox and her litter. One of the pups (kits?) was black. So I'm pretty sure black ones are just born sometimes. That cool picture I found of the black/silver phase one, now...that one looks like a farm bred critter to me. But then again, if they naturally occur black then why not silver or a combination? I've just so happened to of seen several black ones - never any other color. No, not entirely true, I saw a red fox one time that the red part was really a faded kinda muted ugly cloudy whitish red. The tail tip was still pure bright white though.
[ February 05, 2010, 08:27 PM: Message edited by: Locohead ]
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Locohead
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posted February 05, 2010 08:28 PM
Is that your picture Albie, or did someone around here ask you to post it?
Wow! Those eyes... What a fox!!! And I mean it too. What a great looking critter!
[ February 05, 2010, 08:32 PM: Message edited by: Locohead ]
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TundraWookie
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posted February 05, 2010 08:34 PM
They're absolutely beautiful specimens, my favorite color. Up here I've seen Silver Fox, but never a true Black Fox. Here's what one of our Cross-Fox look like up close. We had a litter of Red Fox down the road and there were 2 Cross-Fox and 1 standard Red phased kit in the bunch. They did a great job ridding the neighborhood of cats.
Good information about color phases.
http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/furbear/redfox.php
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predatorhunter
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posted February 06, 2010 01:32 PM
That's the first black one I've ever heard of. We don't have many here anymore,since the coyotes came. But, when I was little there were alot. They would roll around in the warm ashes and bark at night after we had burned brush. Lots of folks used to hunt them with dogs here. They never shot them; they would just sit on their tailgates and listen to their dogs run. A guy down the road raised them for years, and had two albino ones; only ones I ever saw like that too.
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