Azara's Fox
Lycalopex gymnocerca
- Class
- Mammal
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,166
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
Description
The Pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus), also known as the grey pampean fox, Pampas zorro, Azara's fox, or Azara's zorro (in Guaraní also called aguará chaí, anglicized as aguarachay, in Portuguese also called graxaim ([ɡɾaʃaˈĩ]), is a medium-sized zorro, or "false" fox, native to the South American Pampas. Azara in some of its alternative common names is a reference to Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Pampas fox”.