Sentences with phrase «island foxes evolved»

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Like the island fox, the island scrub - jay has evolved into a unique (endemic) island species.

There are six subspecies of the island fox, [1] each of which is native to a specific Channel Island, and which evolved there independently of the oisland fox, [1] each of which is native to a specific Channel Island, and which evolved there independently of the oIsland, and which evolved there independently of the others.

This raises the possibility that gray foxes were brought to the islands by humans, and rapidly evolved into a smaller, separate species after that.

The fox and the deer mouse have evolved into separate sub-species on each island, resulting in eight unique mammal species found only on the Channel Islands.

The gray fox is thought to have colonized Santarosae Island, probably by rafting but possibly by Native American transport, then rapidly evolved into the diminutive island fox, which further differentiated into the 3 northern island subspecies (at 3 km2 Anacapa was too small to support carnivores) after the breakup of Santarosae Island (Collins 1993; Goldstein et al. 1999; Rick et al. 2009; Wayne et al. Island, probably by rafting but possibly by Native American transport, then rapidly evolved into the diminutive island fox, which further differentiated into the 3 northern island subspecies (at 3 km2 Anacapa was too small to support carnivores) after the breakup of Santarosae Island (Collins 1993; Goldstein et al. 1999; Rick et al. 2009; Wayne et al. island fox, which further differentiated into the 3 northern island subspecies (at 3 km2 Anacapa was too small to support carnivores) after the breakup of Santarosae Island (Collins 1993; Goldstein et al. 1999; Rick et al. 2009; Wayne et al. island subspecies (at 3 km2 Anacapa was too small to support carnivores) after the breakup of Santarosae Island (Collins 1993; Goldstein et al. 1999; Rick et al. 2009; Wayne et al. Island (Collins 1993; Goldstein et al. 1999; Rick et al. 2009; Wayne et al. 1991).