Red fox

Description:

The winter fur is dense, soft, silky and relatively long. For the northern foxes, the fur is very long, dense and fluffy, but is shorter, sparser and coarser in southern forms. Among northern foxes, the North American varieties generally have the silkiest guard hairs.There are three main color morphs; red, silver/black and cross. In the typical red morph, their coats are generally bright reddish-rusty with yellowish tints.

Habitat:

Distributed across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, Central America and Asia.

Notes:

Michael Hudgins