Per our guide, Cerdocyon is the next member of Fanily Canidae up, but let’s face it — that is not as clickable as is the possibility of watching a fox preying on crabs, who sell their lives dearly with eyestalks pulsating and pincers clacking in all directions.
You’ll have to settle for that verbal image because, although there are several online videos of crab-eating foxes chowing down, I couldn’t find one of them eating a crab.
How’s this?
The hapless victim is a frog in the Pantanal.
Now, that little canid doesn’t look very fox-like to those of us in the Northern Hemisphere.
As Mongabay explains below it’s not in “our” fox’s genus Vulpes — just like cats, canids are comparatively recent arrivals to South America and they haven’t finished their adaptive radiation yet.
This doesn’t mean that any of the Latin “foxes” will evolve onto Vulpes — rather, these canids have developed a somewhat fox-like appearance (slender legs, bushy tail, and so forth) and they occupy a foxy niche in the local food chains.
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A little lagniappe:
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