splash white...fox?
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I've seen pics of foxes with
I've seen pics of foxes with solid white legs before, quick google found this for example http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq24…
It won't be from dog input, just a rare mutation.
http://www.buckmanager.com/ca
http://www.buckmanager.com/category/dee…
that's about the deer.
To quote Dug...
To quote Dug... Squirrel!?!
http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-ne…
This is the Russian one from
This is the Russian one from the 1950s??
The sixth generation could be kept as pets......
They bred only to "tame" criteria, ignored all colours and patterns and bred for quiet natures, hoping to make the animals calmer in the cages- actually, the end result would not have had to be kept in cages, runs would have done, but finding people to kill and skin them would have been a problem!
The flopping ears (not actually evident in the picture claiming to illustrate them) and pied coat pattern were random results of the animals becoming tame- which goes against all the dog taming theories, however.
The end result looked for all the world like Shelties!
They actually sell them as
They actually sell them as pets now and there was a big article in National Geographic recently. Lyudmila Trut runs it.
I'd be interested in one, if I won the lottery LOL.
http://www.sibfox.com/
Fox genetics
I found a few sites with good information: two just have pretty pictures, bu the last has actual genetics.
thefriendlyfox.webs.com/color-variations
livingwithfoxes.weebly.com/colour-morphs.html
usfoxshipperscouncil.org/201204mutant-color-phases
from what i have found there seem to be two genes that change all black pigment in the fox's coat to brown or gold, they are called "burgundy" and "collicott." Burgundy is brighter and is more of a copper, while collicott is more toned down brown.
There is some kind of dilution gene that lightens only black pigment called pearl. Some say that there is a different gene that looks like pearl, but its "warmer" in tone. they call it Mansfield pearl. It can be combined with burgundy or collicott to make a sort of a tan color
There is a gene that only comes in to play on a pearl called "fire factor" that lightens red pigment
there are several white pattern genes: platinum, marble, white face, and Georgian white.
the so called "silver fox" and "cross fox" coloration are caused by variations in two genes which they choose to represent with A and B. (so a silver fox is one with mostly black pigment, a red fox has mostly red with some black, and a cross is in between)
For example:
AA BB - red fox
AA Bb- standard cross
Aa Bb- blended cross
aa BB - Alaskan silver
aa bb- black
all of the white patterns, brown, and pearl can be layered on top of a red fox, a cross fox, or a silver fox.
All of this information is pieced together from may different sites, so I can't vouch for its accuracy and I think that most of it is based on breeding studies! I have no idea what the actual genes are, but you'd assume they'd be pretty close to a dogs right?
Its pretty cool though :)
Weird. I know the foxes in
Weird. I know the foxes in the domesticated silver fox project do have white patterns and some have blue eyes.
I think he has mange and the flash bleached out the pink in the skin. Here is a fox with mange who is bald in the same spot. http://www.thefoxwebsite.org/images/man…