black fox
English
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Noun
[edit]black fox (plural black foxes)
- Synonym of silver fox, especially in reference to foxskin.
- 1914, Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-bearing Animals, Jones, John Walter, 1878-, Fur-farming in Canada[2], Ottawa: Mortimer, →LCCN:
- This is particularly true of the black fox industry. The fur-value of a high-grade prime black fox skin ranges from about $500 to about $2,500
- 2008, Kirsch, Sharon, 1960-, What species of creatures : animal relations from the New World[3], Vancouver: New Star Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
- Prince Edward Island is the world's headquarters of “Silver Fox” ranching. It was here that the problems of domesticating and breeding the black fox were solved , and the development has attracted world-wide attention.
- (rare) Synonym of Blanford's fox [1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ “Blanford's fox”, in Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife[1], 2009, archived from the original on 4 March 2009
- ^ Canids of the World (Princeton Field Guides), Princeton University Press, 2018, →ISBN, page 237