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Cerdocyon thous (entrerianus)
Also known as Forest or Wood Fox. Medium sized fox body length 64cm (25") plus the tail 28cm (11") average adult. Weighing in at 5-8kg (11-18 lbs). Dark grey coat with foxy red areas around the base of the ears and legs, blackish muzzle and short strong legs.
An endemic to central and northern South America. It frequents scrubby savanna, woodlands and sub tropical forest. This individual seen in the Brazilian Pantanal near rivers.
Although these foxes do hunt and eat crabs, they are also quite opportunistic feeders and will take insects rodents and birds where they find them. There are a number of sub species throughout their range. This one being C.t. entrerianus. Ref: Wikipedia - Crab-eating Fox
Spotted on Oct 28, 2015
Submitted on Dec 1, 2015
8 Comments
Thank you Mark, glad you enjoyed it.
Congrats again Bob, great info
Thank you for choosing this as SOTD and the comments. Great to share and even better when it brings awareness of a species.
Congrats, beautiful animal!
Congratulations triggsturner! This spotting has been chosen as our SOTD! Thank you for sharing!
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Thank you for the comments guys, they are great little foxes and seem quite fearless.
Very interesting.. Thanks for sharing .. :)
I didn't know yet about the existence of this species.. great spotting!