Time for a new #FoxFacts post! Did you know Wisconsin is home to not one, but TWO fox species? I’m sure we’re all familiar with the red fox ) but who has seen a gray fox around Madison? These foxes have their similarities, but gray fox can use their unique claws to climb trees!

As we continue searching out foxes in Madison, it's time for another #FoxFact! Do you know the species of fox in this picture? This critter is actually a melanistic red fox! Melanism is the increased development of the dark-colored pigment melanin in the hair. Crazy cool, right?!

Way to go, Morgan Farmer (Morales)! Excited to have you on the team!

We set our first round of traps today!! While we use deer carcasses to bait coyotes, we’ve found that foxes LOVE hot dogs. Hopefully we’ll have some new collars out there soon! Fingers crossed! 🤞🏼

We have had a BUSY week!! Two coyotes and a red fox! Each healthy and back out in the wild with some new jewelry!

Good news about the Odana Golf Course coyote! A neighbor saw her in his yard and thought she was acting odd, but she was actually (successfully) hunting a rabbit right there in his backyard! More proof that her injury not impacting her ability to survive. She’s one tough cookie!

It was great to have you, Ilanah!

Happy Holidays from the UW Urban Canid Project!! We are thankful for all of your support! 🎄

The Odana Golf Course coyote that we captured a few weeks back was caught today over 2 miles from her original capture site! Her GPS collar hasn’t been working properly so we got her a new one and we’ll now be able to receive data from her each night! #urbanwildlife #urbancanids

Clomped through some fresh snow this morning to find a nice surprise! We got a fox! A feisty female in great condition. We outfitted her with a new GPS collar, took some samples, made sure she was healthy, and sent her on her way. It was a great morning!

*BOING* Here's a majestic shot of one of our collared coyotes bounding across a narrow channel on the western edge of Gardner Marsh at the UW-Madison Arboretum! This candid photo was taken by one of two Snapshot Wisconsin cameras located at the Arboretum.

Time to test your tracking skills! Here are six tracks that can be found in the state of Wisconsin - five of which can be found in Madison. Who can name all six?!

Hey folks! Sorry we’ve been so quiet! We’ve hit a bit of a dry spell trapping-wise, so we thought we’d give you the inside scoop on how we set traps and how they work. Check it out!

We want to take a minute to welcome our newest team member! This is Morgan Farmer (Morales) and she has joined the project as a PhD student! She has coyotes on the brain about 90% of the time and studied them in both her undergrad and masters. Give her a warm welcome, team!

The The Wildlife Society UIUC student chapter a great time last weekend with @CarnivoreLab and Morgan Farmer (Morales) setting up red fox live traps with UW UrbanCanidProject ! The foxes evaded us for now, but we'll get 'em next time🦊Got in some bonus telemetry work too!

#FunFactFriday We all may know that media influences how we perceive things. Researchers at UW-Madison LSC and UW UrbanCanidProject examined how media may influence public attitudes toward urban foxes and coyotes in Madison. Read about the results here: lsc.wisc.edu/2020/06/03/res…

We’re back! To kick things off we wanted to share a paper that was published this summer. By looking at the diets of ancient foxes, researchers discovered that humans have influenced their diet as far back as 42,000 years ago! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Have you ever seen a coyote den? While we'd bet that some of you have, these canids are very good at concealing their homes. They'll utilize wooded patches of parks, culverts, golf courses, underpasses, digging multiple entrances/exits and multiple dens to avoid detection.

Take 20sec to watch snow fall on a fox. Deep breath. Let those shoulders drop friend.

Don’t call it a comeback! After over a month of waiting for activity on our bait, we GOT ONE. Thursday morning we caught this beautiful male red fox, outfitted it with a tracking collar, and sent it on its way!