We need your generous donation be it one dollar or 5,000 dollars so that we can begin the collaring project. Just go to our website ( Urban Wildlife Research Project), check out the letter and go to the donate button on the left of the page. Your donation is tax deductible. The collaring project needs $25,000 and here’s the reason why donate to uwrp?
If you’d like to see a bit of wild Africa giraffes, rhinos, zebras and so much more come visit Safari West https://www.safariwest.com/ We will be doing a tabling event at Safari West on April 18th from 10:00 AM to 4 PM. Drop by and pay us a visit and let us know how you found us.
To find out more about us, search Urban Wildlife Research Project, UWRP, gray foxes, wildlife connection, linkages, corridors and several documentaries and clips on YouTube
We need your generous donation be it one dollar or 5,000 dollars so that we can begin the collaring project. Just go to our website ( Urban Wildlife Research Project), check out the letter and go to the donate button on the left of the page. Your donation is tax deductible. The collaring project needs $25,000 and here’s the reason why donate to uwrp?
If you’d like to see a bit of wild Africa giraffes, rhinos, zebras and so much more come visit Safari West https://www.safariwest.com/ We will be doing a tabling event at Safari West on April 18th from 10:00 AM to 4 PM. Drop by and pay us a visit and let us know how you found us.
To find out more about us, search Urban Wildlife Research Project, UWRP, gray foxes, wildlife connection, linkages, corridors and several documentaries and clips on YouTube
Up until about two weeks ago, the gray fox pair Laimos and Big Eyes were simply living the normal life of two paired gray foxes, behaving like so many others at this time of year with but one exception. In contrast with other foxes that I’ve known, these two played and hunted together. For instance, at night the trail cameras picked them up trotting together along the overflow channel, or hunting along the edge of the back road near Byxbee Park where as Laimos watched, Big Eyes stopped, hunkered down, flexed her thighs and at the exact moment she bounded in an arching leap off into the grass. A moment later she emerged with what appeared to be a rodent. Hunting together like that, as mentioned in a previous Gray Fox Report, is unusual behavior as they are considered in research papers as solitary hunters.
But something has changed. I haven’t seen the two together like that for upwards of two weeks now, neither live nor on any of the multiple trail cameras located in their territory but early in the dark of the morning, March 28th, before dawn so it’s still dark, as I walked along the overflow channel toward the ditch, ahead there were two sets of glowing eyes looking in my direction. As I approached, the pair of eyes on the left dashed away and into the brush. That was one skittish fox and I suspected that it was Big Eyes. That was confirmed when I caught a good look at the other fox still lying up on the retaining wall watching. Clearly that was Laimos.
As I drew near, he sat up. I chatted at him for a few moments and then walked on back to camera #1 situated where the ditch enters Matadero Creek. I swapped out the SD card and walked back along the trail. As I passed the big tree I caught the glint and then a steady stare of a pair of glowing eyes deep in the brush. I knew that it was the hyper-skittish Big Eyes. As I came out from the trail, Laimos was right near the trail’s entrance off the channel. He ran across the ditch and off to the far side where he stopped and looked back at me.