Nancy Asquith
In memoriam: One of the "Gray Foxes of Silicon Valley"
I was out looking for damselflies in a section of creek near Palo Alto Baylands when what I took for a coyote appeared, gave me a calm lookover, then disappeared. Only later did I learn from the 'net that I was near where a well-studied group of grey foxes (urocyon cinereoargenteus) den. This is the best photo I got before the fox left.
Grey foxes are canids that (unlike the more common red foxes) are native to California and indeed to a large swath of the Americas.
The pack's story can be found at:
urbanwildliferesearchproject.com/documentary/
Sadly, I learned early in 2017 that the entire Silicon Valley group had perished from canine distemper.
In memoriam: One of the "Gray Foxes of Silicon Valley"
I was out looking for damselflies in a section of creek near Palo Alto Baylands when what I took for a coyote appeared, gave me a calm lookover, then disappeared. Only later did I learn from the 'net that I was near where a well-studied group of grey foxes (urocyon cinereoargenteus) den. This is the best photo I got before the fox left.
Grey foxes are canids that (unlike the more common red foxes) are native to California and indeed to a large swath of the Americas.
The pack's story can be found at:
urbanwildliferesearchproject.com/documentary/
Sadly, I learned early in 2017 that the entire Silicon Valley group had perished from canine distemper.