{"id":43518,"date":"2015-01-31T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T20:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=43518"},"modified":"2015-01-31T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T20:48:46","slug":"first-yosemite-rare-red-fox-100-years-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/first-yosemite-rare-red-fox-100-years-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"First Yosemite Rare Fox In 100 Years (INTERVIEW)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Red fox ear-tagged by researchers and photographed in an earlier study in Lassen Volcanic National Park (National Park Service\/Keith Slausen).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You remember the spectacular rock climb at Half Dome a few weeks ago? In a more remote part of California\u2019s Yosemite National Park, a motion-sensitive camera placed by\u00a0Forest Service wildlife biologists has twice recorded another unusual phenomenon. A rare\u00a0Sierra Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes nectar)<\/em> was sighted in the back country near Sonora Pass on December 13,2014, and January 4 of this year.<\/p>\n

DNA analysis of the Yosemite rare fox\u2019s saliva<\/a> left on a bait bag of chicken scraps confirmed the visual analysis. The scientists do not know if the sightings were the same animal, or two different ones.<\/p>\n

This type of red fox has not been seen in Yosemite for almost 100 years. Fewer than 50 of them are known to exist in North America. The subspecies has state protection. One of the park rangers, Kari Cobb, saw one several years ago north of the park.<\/p>\n

Cobb and Jeremy Hobson, host of Here & Now<\/em>, public radio’s live midday news program, discuss the Yosemite rare fox on this audio interview. <\/p>\n