The original post: /r/askscience by /u/Vanivn on 2024-05-01 17:45:19.

So I just saw a post from 4 years ago about grey foxes and red foxes. Every single fox from their tree is a “Vuples” except grey fox, which is a “Urocyon”. I’ve also seen them being compared to “Mouse and rat” thing and word “fox” being meaningless colloquial phrase for “looks lika a fox? It surely is a fox.” But my real question is: Is urocyon really a fox? Since it’s not a vulpes, or are we just saying that it is becouse we are used to? Like if I would want to tell someone about fox species am I allowed to say that it is a fox or i should skip this one and just say that its NOT a fox?( Not sure if i wrote everything correctly since im still learning english so i hope it is understandable enough)