Title: A Preliminary Overview of the Subspecies of Red Fox and Tibetan Sand Fox in the Himalaya, India
KeyWords: Vulpes, Himalaya, Red Fox, Tibetan Sand Fox, Indian Fox, distribution
Year of Publication: 2013
ISSN No: Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Author Name: Aishwarya Maheshwari, Neha Midha, Ambica Paliwal, Basant Kumar Sharma, Partha Sarathi Ghose, Priyadarshinee Shreshtha and Srushti Paranjpe
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Abstract
The authors conducted extensive surveys for the Red Fox Vulpes vulpes and Tibetan Sand Fox V. ferrilata in the Greater and Trans-Himalaya of north and north-east India between 2008 and 2013, with opportunistic camera trapping done in Kargil, Jammu & Kashmir. In this paper, the authors provide an update on the distribution of V. v. griffithii in the Himalaya,discuss their observations on V. v. montana, and support the claim of the occurrence of V. ferrilata in India. The authorsalso discuss the distribution overlap of V. v. montana with V. v. griffithii in the Western Himalaya; V. v. montana with V. ferrilata in the Eastern Himalaya; and V. v. montana with Indian Fox V. bengalensis in the foothills of the Himalaya.