Everything I am doing at the moment seems to involve canids. I am still struggling through the blue dog book, we are in the process of starting a project about the reed wolf in Hungary, and even my favourite webcomic is mostoly about mystickal doggies. Now, thanks to Bob Skinner, and Serena Cairns, I have heard about another rare canid...
I am pretty sure I saw a pelt of a black fox in the Natural History Department of the National Museum of Ireland many years ago. In early Irish there was a word FUINCHE which signified a black fox, so they are not unknown. In the United States I understand there are black foxes which are merely a colour variant of red the red fox.
ReplyDeleteMy take on the reed wolf is that it is the golden jackal wandering up from Serbia.
ReplyDeleteBlack foxes aren't uncommon in North America. Virtually all silver foxes in captivity today derive from ones that were initially farmed in the Canadian Maritimes.
There are black hoary foxes, which aren't foxes but are South American wild dogs.
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