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wildstray · Wolf Puppy Joined: 05 May 2009 Posts: 44 Location: Italy

A thing that I find really cool of the foxes is that small dark spot on the sides of the mouth Cool

Watching many fox photos I realized that this particularity is present only in some fox species, and in the same species not all foxes have this spots

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you can see a fox who has these spots. Some

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emphasize this particularity.

What about this particularity, and what is its definition??? Studying

I learned that the small dark strip on the front paws of some species of wolves is called "signatus", it's a well known and documented particularity and is disctintive of European wolves. You can see it

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(sometimes is present in hybrids... a Czech wolfdog who I know has a light signatus) There are other particularities of the wolves (and other wild canids), as the "fleshy bridge" between the two central pads of the front paws...

...but I cannot find anything about particularities of the foxes Sad

James McCloud · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:59 am Post subject:

I also like seeing the brown spots on the sides of the foxes muzzles, i will look for more information about. Good Topic Smile

Nice find with the DA picture too! I like how he did that.

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Kibib · Fox Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 56

first I thought they were directly where the whiskery are, but their position can vary a bit and not all have got these markings.
Redfox Words' "the Bold Vixen" has got only slight markings:

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Redfox (half silverfox) "Sophia" got the markings a bit back in red

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Marblefox "Faruk" got very strong markings, directly where the whiskers are:

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Marblefox "Fjell" hasn't got the markings at all (but has other beautiiful markings)

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like Fjell Kibib has not got these markings

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UltraMetaloid · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:13 am Post subject:

You know, I never noticed that before. Neutral

But now that I look, a lot of fox pictures I see display those spots. Very interesting.

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