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Vulpes vulpes
This is a hobby of mine, check out my profile on projectnoah.org My handle is "bearattack79" A melanistic Red Fox.
As mentioned below I would call this not melanistic but "partly melanistic". Melanistic would be completely black.
This guy looks like a partly melanistic red fox. This is a result of
melanism, which is, in short, the exact opposite of albinism, in that the body is very dark. If it were to be wholly melanistic, it would be completely black, yet the other markings show it is only partly melanistic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanism
Spotted on Aug 15, 2011
Submitted on Aug 31, 2012
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