When I sat down to put this episode together I thought it was going to be about the flatheaded wood borers I find when I’m splitting fire wood. Somewhere after talking about sauntering around our homestead I wandered off to another topic. Did I even mention wood borers? So gray fox skull it is. I’ll save flatheaded wood borers for another time. Stay tuned!
Gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) have a large range in North America with much of it shared with the red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Red foxes don’t occur in Arizona…well, maybe up along the northern border…so gray foxes have it all to themselves and they’re quite common. In the borderlands we also have the not so common small and very cute (all ears) kit fox (Vulpes macrotis). Now you know.
The photo is mine and taken the day Ms. Mesquitey and I were wandering in the hills. Do you see the temporal ridges? I love skulls.
