Gray Fox

• It eats small mammals, insects, fruit and seeds.
• It lives in dense woodland across much of North America and northern South America.
• Climbing trees, a behaviour unique among North American canids, serves it both to escape predators and to reach fruit.
• locomociónIt is one of the few canids that actively climb trees, thanks to semi-retractile claws and more flexible forelimbs than other foxes have.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (mammal)

Habitat and environment

Dense woodland across much of North America and northern South America

Birth weight

~95 g at birth

Size at birth

~95 g at birth

Sexual maturity

10 months

Gestation / incubation

~57 days

Litter / clutch size

1 to 7 young per litter (average 4)

Life expectancy in captivity

Documented record of up to 16.2 years

Sources consulted: AnAge (genomics.senescence.info); NPS Grand Canyon; USGS (ecology management); Wikipedia (comparative reference via Gray fox pages)

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.