Cama Fox Skull Replica measures 3.9×2.7×2 inches. Cama Fox Skull Replica is museum quality polyurethane cast, 2-part skull (separate cranium and jaw). Made in USA. Cast of an original California Academy of Sciences specimen. Known as Cape Fox.
The African Cape Fox other names are Asse Fox, Cama Fox and Silver-Backed Fox.
The Cama Fox ears are relatively large and sharp, the muzzle is small and pointed. Pelage color is silvery-gray, tawny at the back of the ears, with white hairs appearing around the side of the pinna in the center.
The color of the neck and sides is lighter, and the underparts are pale tawny to pale buff. The head is dull red and the lower jaw is dark brown. There are white marks on the throat. The legs are more tawny than the rest of the body.
The tail is dense and bushy, and can be silvery, pale fawn, buff with brown or black tips, or dull yellow. The tail tip is always black, and there’s a dark spot over the caudal gland.
Cama Fox is a lightly built, slender fox, with bushy tail, medium to large ears and a fine tapered muzzle. Habitat is Open Acacia grasslands, steppe, sub-desert scrub and open grassy areas within bush land.
Cama Fox is a small-built canid, usually measuring 17.5 to 24.5 in. long, not including its tail, which is typically 12 to 15.5 in. It is 12 to 14 in. tall at the shoulder, and usually weighs from 5.5 to 9.9 lb.
The skull is very similar to that of V. bengalensis, although the cranium of Cama Fox is slightly wider and the maxillary region is slightly shorter. The Cape Fox has a long, slender muzzle with strongly curved canines and two upper molars that are broad for crushing.
Cama Fox is nocturnal and most active just before dawn or after dusk; it can be spotted during the early mornings and early evenings.
During the day, it typically shelters in burrows underground, holes, hollows, or dense thickets. It is an active digger that will excavate its own burrow, although it generally modifies an abandoned burrow of another species.
Cama Fox are solitary creatures, and although they form mated pairs, the males and females are often found alone, as they tend to forage separately.
Cape fox or V. chama are not especially territorial but will mark their territories with a pungent scent.
Although a normally silent fox, the Cama Fox is known to communicate with soft calls, whines or chirps. However, it will utter a loud bark when alarmed.
When in an aggressive mood, the Cama Fox known to growl and spit at its attacker. To show its excitement, the fox lifts its tail, the height of the tail often indicating the measure of excitement.
Cama Fox are omnivorous and will eat plants or animals. Although they prefer invertebrates and small mammals such as rodents, they are opportunists and known to hunt and eat reptiles, rabbits, spiders, birds, and young hares.
Cama Fox will also eat eggs, beetle larvae, and carrion, as well as most insects or fruits.
Other food items include: gerbils; field mice and other small rodents, hares, birds; bird nestlings and eggs, diverse vegetable material, including wild fruit, berries, seeds, roots, and tubers; lizards, insects, such as white ants, beetles and their larvae, and locusts.
