Crab-Eating Fox

The crab-eating fox, also known as the forest fox, wood fox, bushdog or maikong, is an extant species of medium-sized canid endemic to the central part of South America since at least the Pleistocene epoch. Like South American foxes, which are in the genus Lycalopex, it is not closely related to true foxes. The crab-eating fox is a canid that ranges in savannas; woodlands; subtropical forests; prickly, shrubby thickets; and tropical savannas such as the caatinga, plains, and campo, from Colombia and southern Venezuela in the north to Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina at the southernmost reaches of its range.

Scientific name: Cerdocyon thous

Conservation status: Least Concern (Population stable)

Mass: 13 lbs (Adult)

Trophic level: Omnivorous

Length: 2.1 ft. (Adult)

Gestation period: 57 days

Rank: Species