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Cerdocyon thous MG 9503🐺

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SpeciesCarnivoraCanidae
Carnivores

🐺Crab-eating fox

Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus, 1766)

Der Maikong (Cerdocyon thous), auch Krabbenfuchs oder Savannenfuchs genannt, ist der häufigste Wildhund Südamerikas. Er ist über weite Teile Südamerikas östlich der Anden und nördlich Patagoniens verbreitet.

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≈ 1/11th of your weight
Also called
Common Zorro, Crab-eating Zorro, Savannah Fox
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
5.74 kg
Body length
0.67 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
13 years
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Everything we know about the Crab-eating fox

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
5.74 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 6.5 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.67 m
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Brain mass
40 g
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Maximum lifespan
13 years
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  • 13 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
4.19 years
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Age at maturity
279 days
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Gestation
56 days
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  • 55 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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  • 4AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Home range
1.41 km²
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Population density
0.4 per km²
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Volume l
5.7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Crab-eating fox yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyCanidae
  6. ›genusCerdocyon
  7. ›speciesCerdocyon thous
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. familyCanidae
  4. genusCerdocyon
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyCanidae
  14. genusCerdocyon
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What it eats
insects and other invertebrates83%
carrion17%
In other languages
Cerdocyon thous (es), Maikong (de), Cerdocyon thous (fr), savannehond (nl), Majkong krabożerny (pl), שועל הסרטנים (he) … and 26 more languages
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