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Cross Fox photo, Denali National Park, Alaska.

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Cross Fox Photo, Denali National Park, Alaska.

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I promise I’m winding down my photos from Denali this year. One more after this one. This is a cross fox, a color phase of the more commonly seen red fox. The black stripe down the back, with another one across the shoulders forms a cross, hence the name we give it “cross fox”. The animal is, for all intents and purposes, a red fox. In the wild, it’s not unsual for various color phases. They can be the typical orange-red, silver, grey, black, or a combination (like the cross fox). All red foxes have a litte tell-tale marking, regardless of their overall coloring - they all have (more…)

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Red fox photos, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Red fox kit silhouette, Arctic National wildlife refuge, alaska

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Wildlife in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge. This is a red fox kit, taken just a hundred yards or so from where we camped along the Canning river on the coastal plain. This photo was taken around 3am. It was pretty cloudy and overcast, but the clouds didn’t go all the way to northern horizon, so eventually there was a little break, where the sun dipped just below the cloudline towards the horizon, (more…)

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