![]() (Additional examples of dual-color sculptures are shown in Color Confusion.) Their introduction prices reflected the difference in coloration: Maximilian’s issue price was $250 while Maxine’s was $195. The 5.75″ high brown Maximilian appeared in 1977 and the albino female Maxine followed in 1978. Musha’s European relative, the dormouse, was represented by Cybis in two colors. ![]() Perhaps he would simply have been called Deer Mouse ‘Musha’! My favorite is the one at the far right (darker mouse, nibbling on the wheat spear) obviously, the retail piece would have been named differently if that one had been chosen. The New Jersey State Museum’s collection of Cybis contains this group of four sample designs of this piece, varying in color and ‘accessory’. By the way, the genus name for mouse ( Mus) is said to derive from the Sanskrit word musha which means “thief”! Obviously, somewhere along the line Cybis decided to drop the mouse’s name. Copyright Office registration shows it as “Musha In Clover, deer mouse”. At introduction it was named Deer Mouse ‘Musha’ In Clover the June 1970 U.S. Globally, the range of weights for Red foxes is generally given as 3kg to 14kg (31 lbs) although, as we shall see, this should be extended to 16kg (35 lbs).‘Into the woods’ is probably not the most accurate title for a post describing the wide-ranging array of Cybis wildlife sculptures profiled below, but I think that with more than 50% of them qualifying as per habitat I can probably get away with it.īeginning with the smallest woodland denizen, Deer Mouse ‘In Clover’ is 3.5” high and was produced only from 1970 to 1973, as an open edition at $65. Experts say it is the biggest to have been recorded in the UKUK. And the 69-year-old found it weighed a staggering 38lb 1oz and was 4ft 9in from its nose to the tip of its tail. Mr Hepworth later decided to weigh the fox after realising it would probably be the largest he had ever shot. Most adults weigh about 5–7 kg (10–15 pounds), but the largest individuals may approach 14 kg Red fox, (Vulpes vulpes), also called common fox, species of fox (family. This is probably a very close matchup, where I will take the Fisher at parity, but its close. Despite its common name, the fisher rarely eats fish.Ĭan an American Red Fox even get to 14Kg? I know this happens occasionally in the European variant of the species, but I'm hard pressed to find records of American Red Fox getting over 10Kgs, and that's well within a Fisher's abilities to tackle. It prefers the snowshoe hare and is one of the few animals able to prey successfully on porcupines. An omnivore, the fisher feeds on a wide variety of small animals and occasionally on fruits and mushrooms. Although an agile climber, it spends most of its time on the forest floor, where it prefers to forage around fallen trees. ![]() The fisher prefers to hunt in full forest. During the summer, the color becomes more mottled, as the fur goes through a moulting cycle. The fur of the fisher varies seasonally, being denser and glossier in the winter. Adult females are 75 to 95 cm (30–37 in) long and weigh 2.0 to 2.5 kg (4–6 lb). Adult males are 90 to 120 cm (35–47 in) long and weigh 3.5 to 6.0 kilograms (8–13 lb). It is sometimes misleadingly referred to as a fisher cat, although it is not a cat. Names derived from aboriginal languages include pekan, pequam, wejack, and woolang. The fisher is a forest-dwelling creature whose range covers much of the boreal forest in Canada to the northern United States. The fisher is closely related to, but larger than the American marten (Martes americana). It is a member of the mustelid family (commonly referred to as the weasel family), and is in the monospecific genus Pekania. The fisher ( Pekania pennanti) is a small, carnivorous mammal native to North America. On average, adults measure 35–50 cm (14–20 in) high at the shoulder and 45 to 90 cm (18 to 35 in) in body length with tails measuring 30 to 63 in (760 to 1,600 mm). In North America, adult red foxes typically weigh between 3.5 and 7.0 kg, but large specimens can weigh over 10 kg. They display significant individual, sexual, age and geographical variation in size. Their limb bones, for example, weigh 30% less per unit area of bone than expected for similarly sized dogs. However, relative to dimensions, red foxes are much lighter than similarly sized dogs of the Canis genus. Red foxes are the largest species of the genus Vulpes. Since 1959 they have been considered to be a singular species of Vulpes vulpes, with Vulpes fulva one of the ten subspecies (Hall, 1981 Kamler & Ballard, 2002). Historically, red foxes were classified as two species: Vulpes vulpes in Eurasia and Vulpes fulva in the Americas (Tesky, 1995). The American red fox ( Vulpes vulpes fulvus), commonly known as the eastern American red fox, is a North American subspecies of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes).
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