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[–] 101 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 69 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    rarest

    I dunno, looks a bit over-cooked to me.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago
    [–] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    A type of Silver Fox .... basically a Red Fox with a genetic mutation that alters its usual red fur colouring with a darker brown or black colour.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_fox_(animal)

    I'm Ojibway from northern Ontario and we always identified these guys according to colour ... Red Fox, Black Fox or White Fox (aka Arctic Fox) ... I know Arctic Fox is a separate species and it is rare in my area but we still see it as its a cousin to the Red/Black variety.

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    [–] 14 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Fire/Fighting or Fire/Dark?

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago

    Hey look, its a fire fox

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    They should call this the Lava Fox.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Real life shiny.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    you need one of the specialty pokeballs to catch this one

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Is it really rare, or just very hard to spot?

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    i wanna snuggle her

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    Belgian Malinois of the Forest

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    What about the red hand fish?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    It's a shiny.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    yes but melanism occurs at different rates in different species. a melanistic fox can be rarer than a melanistic jaguar, in the same way that a two-headed dog is rarer than a two-headed snake

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    do I have data on whether different species have different genes, and thus are affected differently by genetic conditions? I mean, it's just sort of inherent to the concept of species, no? I guess as a specific example, I could say that the rate of melanism in humans is none, and the rate of melanism in some other species is not none, as evidenced by the fact that the concept of melanism exists, therefore melanism doesn't occur in all species at the same rate

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's not exactly data specific to the claim in the post, which is my question. Sorry for asking basic scientific questions.

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