What is Crab-eating fox?
{{Speciesbox | name = Crab-eating fox<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Carnivora | id=14000783| page = 578}}</ref> | image = Crab-eating Fox.JPG | image_caption = ''Cerdocyon thous'' from [[Colombia]] | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref =<ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn|author=Courtenay, O.|author2=Maffei, L.|name-list-style=amp|year=2008|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/4248/0|title=''Cerdocyon thous''|access-date=22 March 2009}}</ref> | display_parents = 3 | genus = Cerdocyon | parent_authority = [[Charles Hamilton Smith|C. E. H. Smith]], 1839 | species = thous | authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1766) | range_map = Crab-eating Fox area.png | range_map_caption = Crab-eating fox range | synonyms = ''Canis thous'' <small>Linnaeus,&nbsp;1766</small> }} The '''crab-eating fox''' (''Cerdocyon thous'') is an type of [[canid]]. It is also known as the '''forest fox''', '''wood fox''', '''bushdog''' or '''maikong''', It only lives in the central part of [[South America]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/4248/0 |author=Courtenay, O. & Maffei, L. |date=2008 |title=Cerdocyon thous}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgAMbNSt8ikC&pg=PA577 |author=Wozencraft, C. W. |date=2005 |isbn=978-0-8018-8221-0|title=Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference}}</ref> ==Distribution== The crab-eating fox lives in different [[habitats]] such as [[savannas]], [[woodlands]], [[subtropical]] forests, prickly, shrubby thickets; and tropical [[savannas]]. It lives in [[Colombia]] and southern [[Venezuela]], [[Uruguay]] and northern [[Argentina]] at the southernmost reaches of its range. Its habitat also includes wooded riverbanks such as riparian forest. They live in every habitat in South America except rainforests, high mountains, and open grassy savannas.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8018-8032-7 |author=Nowak, Ronald M. |date=2005|title=Walker's Carnivores of the World}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[