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 Post subject: Is a fox part of Wolf family?
PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2007 9:06 pm 
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I heard that a fox is part of the wolf family, but I also heard that somebody says its from a cat family?Which one is correct? :?

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Foxes belong under The family Canidae. This includes dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes and jackals.

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you probably herd it was from cat family cuz the fox is very cat like. the cat-like canine. :P


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Kobi wrote:
you probably herd it was from cat family cuz the fox is very cat like. the cat-like canine. :P


Yeah it kinda looks like a cat and a wolf put together since they aren't very big in size. The fox is a size of a normal housecat, right?

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Eh, foxes are definitely not part of the cat family O.o

They are canidae, like wolves and dogs, but dogs and foxes are distantly related. Dogs do not share their DNA with foxes like they do with wolves.

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More like jackals and cyotes right?

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yea the coyote is like a bigger version of the fox almost twice the size.. sometimes called the big brother. they pounce like a fox can but have a heavier frame and less cat like.
i like this, keep asking i wana see how much i know lol. being my fav animal an all. :P


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The fox is an ancient descendant of the wolf, which has existed since god knows when. The first foxes to be recorded (source: norwegian encyclopedia) was seen in around 1452 (around that, the years is very unclearly described, correct me if I'm wrong.) before Jesus Christ. The fox (again, the encyclopedia was unclear on this point... BAD caplex!) was categeorized in the lupine family around 1600 after Jesus...

Again, correct me if I am wrong. My encyclopedia dates back to 1925 -.-'

[edit] Changed a few words.


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Wolflux wrote:
The fox is an ancient descendant of the wolf, which has existed since god knows when. The first foxes to be recorded (source: norwegian encyclopedia) was seen in around 1452 (around that, the years is very unclearly described, correct me if I'm wrong.) before Jesus Christ. The fox (again, the encyclopedia was unclear on this point... BAD caplex!) was categeorized in the lupine family around 1600 after Jesus...

Again, correct me if I am wrong. My encyclopedia dates back to 1925 -.-'

[edit] Changed a few words.


Thats a long time ago for foxes to start arriving! :shock:

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Wolf and Fox have same structure of body... they just like same but different!

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well there both canine. but quite different.


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Fox is definatly part of the canine family. ;]

Fox
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Caniformia
Family: Canidae
Genus: Vulpes
Species: vulpes

Wolf
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Eutheria
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species: Canis lupus

If you notice, foxes and wolves have a lot of those in common. ;]

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Cat
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Felis
Species: Felis domesticus

They don't shate the ones with that cat's that is really important.
I would do more 'research', but I don't have time. lol. Maybe I shall later. O_o

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SilverFangWolf wrote:
Wolflux wrote:
The fox is an ancient descendant of the wolf, which has existed since god knows when. The first foxes to be recorded (source: norwegian encyclopedia) was seen in around 1452 (around that, the years is very unclearly described, correct me if I'm wrong.) before Jesus Christ. The fox (again, the encyclopedia was unclear on this point... BAD caplex!) was categeorized in the lupine family around 1600 after Jesus...

Again, correct me if I am wrong. My encyclopedia dates back to 1925 -.-'

[edit] Changed a few words.


Thats a long time ago for foxes to start arriving! :shock:


Yeah, I think so myself... I have to get a newer and more updated encyclopedia soon.


To tibb: Yeah, they do. But humans cannot exactly categeorize anything at all, as we truly don't know. Early humans made something up and called it the truth. Today we think it's true because we've learned it's true. For all we really know, foxes could've come for outer space.


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I heard that foxes were a part of the Cat Family.

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Aluewolf15 wrote:
I heard that foxes were a part of the Cat Family.

like i said before. probably because there cat like. they are very curius, have a light flexible frame, pounce there pray, have great night vision, vertically pupils, they even have partly retractable claws. partly, because they cant hide away completely, but they can pull them up of the ground and down. so sometimes a fox print wont have any claw marks. they are the cat like canine.


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