![]() ![]() Introduced in 1976 and retired before 1982, he is 8” high and wide and was an open edition with an introduction price of $245.Ĭhipmunk with Bloodroot was also introduced in 1976, as a limited edition of 500. Staying in the rodent family for a bit, here is Prairie Dog ‘Poko’. All were given ‘names’ but the title of this fellow is unknown. ![]() This special one-of-a-kind, dapper gentleman dormouse was done for a charity auction in 1978 and was one of 50 different open-edition animals that were whimsically dressed and decorated. (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. 93(1): 52-65.‘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. The origin of recently established red fox populations in the United States: translocations or natural range expansions Journal of Mammalogy. Although European red foxes translocated to the eastern United States during Colonial times may have contributed genetically to extant populations in that region, our findings suggest that most of the matrilineal ancestry of eastern red foxes originated in North America. Several common haplotypes in these populations originated in regions where fur-farm stocks originated. In contrast, populations in western Washington and southern California contained nonnative, highly admixed stock that clearly resulted from intracontinental translocations. Similarly, recently established populations in the Great Basin and in western Oregon originated primarily from native populations in western montane regions, but also contained a few nonnative North American haplotypes. Red foxes from the southeastern United States were closely related to native populations in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, suggesting that they originated from natural range expansions, not from translocation of European lineages, as was widely believed prior to this study. We found no Eurasian haplotypes in North America, but found native haplotypes in recently established populations in the southeastern United States and in parts of the western United States. To test these hypotheses we compared mitochondrial DNA sequences (cytochrome b and D-loop) from 110 individuals from 6 recently established populations to 327 native (primarily historical) individuals from Eurasia, Alaska, Canada, the northeastern United States, and montane areas in the western contiguous United States, and to 38 individuals from fur farms. Extant populations of red foxes in those areas are considered to have arisen from intentional introductions from the east (and by extension are putatively European), escapes or releases from fur farms, or range expansions by native populations. The red fox also was absent historically from most lowland areas of the western United States. Alternatively, red foxes introduced from Europe during Colonial times may have become established in the east and subsequently expanded their range westward. Some early naturalists described an apparent southward expansion of native foxes that coincided with anthropogenic habitat changes in the region. Red foxes were historically absent from much of the East Coast at the time of European settlement and did not become common until the mid-1800s. Red foxes ( Vulpes vulpes) are native to boreal and western montane portions of North America but their origins are unknown in many lowland areas of the United States.
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