Grey Fox Facts: also GRAY FOX facts 🦊 Animal Fact Files

The grey fox (or gray fox - it's spelled either way) is not a "true" fox! The grey fox is currently consider the most basal living canid. You can learn more grey fox facts on this episode of Animal Fact Files!

Scientific Name: Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Range: the Americas
Habitat: mostly wooded places with access to water but also seen in open areas and urban settings
Size: 9 pounds (4kg) in weight, 14 inches (36cm) tall at the shoulder, 3 feet (91cm) long
Diet: fruits, insects, rodents, etc.
Threats: bobcats, coyotes, owls, eagles, etc.
Lifespan: 6-8 years in the wild

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Grey Fox VS OTHER FOXES 0:00
Grey Fox RANGE 0:38
Grey Fox VS RED FOX 0:51
Grey Fox HABITAT AND PREDATORS 1:05
Grey Fox VS COYOTE 1:45
Grey Fox DEN 2:00
Grey Fox LIFE CYCLE 2:21
Grey Fox DIET 3:01
Grey Fox APPEARANCE 3:32
Thanks / Outro 4:00
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[AnimalFactFiles]

These are some of my favorite animals! I love seeing them in the wild! How about you?
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[penny_the_wiser]

I think all species of fox are absolutely adorable. I love those faces. I didn't know Grey Foxes could climb trees, that's crazy.

[tonybarnett]

I am 56. Despite spending half my life in the woods and encountering virtually every animal possible: today is the first time I have ever seen a grey fox. It was a juvenile.

[tomexplodes]

We've got a family of gray foxes living in our old barn. They mostly keep to themselves. The kits are ADORABLE.

[tracybowling]

I loved learning more about Grey Foxes. They are pretty cute! It's really cool that they can climb trees.

[Pjvenom]

Great video guys, growing up as a Metal Gear Solid fan the Cyborg Ninja Frank Jaeger springs to mind every time I hear Gray Fox.🦊💥🦖

[willowdelosrios]

There was a grey living in my old neighborhood, that we’d sometimes hear at night. We had an apple tree in our yard, and it would sometimes knock apples from the tree onto our roof so it could eat them, which made a lot of noise. We even got a few photos of it once. Sadly, given that we haven’t seen it in years, the abundance of coyotes in our neighborhood, and the large family of raccoons that moved in recently, I suspect it is no longer alive.

[kevinquinonez]

The grey fox is actually not the only canidae that can climb trees the raccoon dog is another canidae that can climb

[samrizzardi]

So good you specified its taxonomy. I wish its original name (which can be found in pre-20th century literature) "kolishay" had stuck.

[Scarlet_goose]

"Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon"

[ShelbyOnSafari]

Loved that footage of the kits! 🥰 have you done a fact file on the island fox? 🤞💚

[indyreno]

Can you do fact files on the crab-eating fox?

[Scott-fjuf]

Grey fox… I think you mean best fox. 💕

[ediewall]

I have a dinner date with one every evening. I leave a plate of food and then vacate. The next day, the food is gone. My barking, fenced, dogs see, hear or smell him/ her to alert me, so I have had distant sightings as he is on his way to the dinner plate in the field on my property. Of course, then the nearby horses next door see me leaving a plate of food, and they want their carrots, and I oblige.

[Attlanttizz]

It's cute, so it has a chance of survival

[samsammy]

All I know is the grey fox is native in North Carolina. The red fox was imported from Europe for the hunt. And I ain’t talking bout in the recent.Close to when the first British aristocrats came to this land. Ain’t seen but two kinds on my property grey and red. And they both crossed by but no fights or any aggressive action. Pretty close to say they ignored one another. Other than the grey is a climber and the European red don’t.

[toyfan]

Everything in this video is new to me. Didn't even know there was a grey fox. Thank you for opening my eyes

[ctom]

I see many grey Foxes at night in my neighborhood. They are like the Size of Cat that are extremely Fast & Quick

[SakuragiSayo]

All foxes are "cat-like canids" though, not just Grey Foxes.

[vernonfridy]

Both species of raccoon dogs can climb trees.