#0398 · 🦊 mammals

Pampas Fox

🇳🇱 Azaravos ·Lycalopex gymnocerca

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Pablo G. Fernández · CC BY 4.0
2. © harisson · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © jeemah · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ezequiel Vera · CC BY 4.0
5. Toay, La Pampa, Argentina:© Luciano Massa · CC BY 4.0
6. JWHW+4M4, 30000 Villa Serrana, Departamento de Lavalleja, Uruguay:© Daniela Martínez · CC BY 4.0
7. Departamento de Flores, Uruguay:© Pablo G. Fernández · CC BY 4.0
8. Calle 458, La Plata, Buenos Aires, AR:© orrumamartin · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Loventué, La Pampa, Argentina:© joseluisblazquez · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Picada del Bañadero, Entre Ríos, AR:© Gabriel Delasala · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The pampas fox ( Lycalopex gymnocercus ), also known as grey pampean fox , aguará chaí , aguarachay , Azara's fox , or Azara's zorro , is a medium-sized zorro, or "false" fox, native to the South American pampas. The alternative common names are references to Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,110iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,110 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim in 1814 (212 years ago).