1. The gray fox lives in deciduous woodlands and eats a variety of foods like cottontail rabbits, voles, mice, birds, and shrews. 2. Young gray foxes begin hunting around 3-4 months with their parents and have a unique ability to climb trees to find food or hide from predators. 3. The gray fox's role in the food chain is as a secondary consumer that preys on small rodents and is preyed upon by larger carnivores.

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4. Food Chain of Gray Fox The four steps in the food chain start with the producer, wildberries to the primary consumer, the field mouse to the secondary consumer, the gray fox and to the tertiary consumer which is the human hunter. Producer Autotroph Wildberries Primary Consumer Omnivore Field Mouse Secondary Consumer Carnivore Gray Fox Tertiary Consumer Omnivore Hunter

5. Food Web of Gray Fox Herbivore Rabbit, secondary Producer: leaves, primary Omnivore : Gray Fox, secondary consumer Carnivore: lynx, tertiary consumer Carnivore: Bobcat, tertiary consumer Producer: berry Producer: grass, primary Carnivore: frog Herbivore: deer, primary Herbivore: field mouse Primary consumer Carnivore: owl

10. Work Cited http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Urocyon_cinereoargenteus.html Fox http://go.grolier.com/ Grolier online encyclopedia http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000025790 I look to the trees and see a Gray Fox/ Dog Fancy Magazine