Pictures: "Rarest of the Rare" Species Named

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Island Gray Fox Photograph by George H.H. Huey, Corbis

With fewer than a thousand individuals left, the island gray fox (pictured) may not be able to outfox extinction, according to the new Wildlife Conservation Society report "Rarest of the Rare."

The island gray—the smallest fox in the United States—is found only on California's Channel Islands (see map). The tiny mammal has succumbed to predation from golden eagles as well as diseases from domestic dogs introduced to the islands, experts say.

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[Scythian]

Common Hellcat ...

[Pyro7480]

In caves I guess.

[Raul Raul]

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[Raymann]

Its a really bad photoshop job, you can see the box around it.

[Steve Van Doorn]

He is kinda cute. I seen one once when sailed out to Santa Cruz Island.

notice how the population has greatly decreased since the federal government took the islands from the owners?

i still can not believe how the government killed the sheep and cattle that was on the Island. They created a line of people and covered the island shooting everything they seen letting their corpses rot in the sun.

[Steve Van Doorn]

in the blow up it looks like a baby bear cub

[csmusaret]

I thought you had a pic of a “pro life Democrat”.

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