The Zoochat Photographic Guide To Canids

TheWalrus said:
What's next? I am really hoping for the rest of Carnivora (bears and pinnipeds).
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Correct - working on the post now.

The thread will also cover the Hyenidae, rather than devoting a whole thread to four species :p even though this is not a taxonomically sound grouping.
 
Can anyone tell me the difference between the Japanese Racoon Dog and the Mainland Racoon Dog (other then the fact that one lives In Japan, and the other the mainland:p)? Judging from the photos on this thread, they look basically the same.
 
TZDugong said:
Can anyone tell me the difference between the Japanese Racoon Dog and the Mainland Racoon Dog (other then the fact that one lives In Japan, and the other the mainland:p)? Judging from the photos on this thread, they look basically the same.
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The Japanese species has shorter and thinner fur, significantly fewer chromosomes (38 as opposed to the 54 of the Mainland species), and tends to be more buffy in colour.
 
Aren't many (namely eastern North American) populations of Red Fox thought to be hybrids with European animals?

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Aren't many (namely eastern North American) populations of Red Fox thought to be hybrids with European animals?
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That was the thinking for a long time, yeah, but it seems from genetic studies that there hasn't been all that much interbreeding relatively speaking.
 
@TeaLovingDave The gallery of Zoológico Simón Bolívar contains photos of the (probably) Costa Rican subspecies of the Grey Fox. Did you see my post about the Ecuadorian Culpeo?
 
Thanks to @sooty mangabey we now have a photo of Rueppel's Fox in the gallery:

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Can easily swap it out once you've got those uploaded :)
 
TeaLovingDave said:
Coyote (Canis latrans)

The original range of this species was restricted to the western United States, Central America and southwestern Canada; however with the extirpation of the Grey Wolf, Red Wolf and Eastern Wolf from large portions of North America the range of the species has substantially increased and it now extends across the vast majority of the continent, south as far as Panama and missing only from the extreme north-east of Canada.

19 subspecies proposed; many of these may comprise regional variants given the recent spread of the species into the areas in question.

C. l. latrans
C. l. cagottis - photo by @Adam Khor

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C. l. clepticus
C. l. dickeyi
C. l. frustor - photo by @Ituri

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C. l. goldmani
C. l. hondurensis
C. l. impavidus
C. l. incolatus
C. l. jamesi
C. l. lestes - photo by @Ituri

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C. l. mearnsi - photo by @ThylacineAlive

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C. l. microdon
C. l. ochropus
C. l. peninsulae
C. l. texensis - photo by @ThylacineAlive

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C. l. thamnos
C. l. umpquensis
C. l. vigilis

Moreover, populations in the eastern United States and Canada comprise introgressive hybrids between C. latrans, C. lupus and C. lycaon:

Photo by @savethelephant

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Just a quick update on my Canis latrans frustor photo. It turns out that the generally accepted dividing line between C. l. frustor and C. l. latrans runs fairly close to where this photo was taken. That being said, coyote taxonomy and subspecies is incredibly fuzzy anyway, so maybe it doesn't really matter.
 
I have now added a photograph of Blanford's Fox taken by @alexkant to the relevant part of the thread:

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I've also taken the opportunity to replace the existing Rueppel's Fox photograph with another - again taken by @alexkant - as it shows the general form of the species better:

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