Article: Native Red Foxes Living in California's Sacramento Valley; Public's Help Sought.

Byline: University of California, Davis

DAVIS, Calif., May 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Contrary to onetime scientific opinion, red foxes living in the Sacramento Valley are not an artificially introduced species that threaten local ecosystems, according to a UC Davis researcher.

Ben Sacks, an expert in canine genetics and a researcher in the School of Veterinary Medicine, has new findings suggesting that these animals are natives, and close cousins to the native Sierra Nevada red fox.

In other low-elevation parts of the state, red foxes are indeed nonnative, invasive and threaten several endangered bird species. Some ecologists and biologists have ...

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