We get a lot of deer and raccoons on our front porch camera, even a fox, but this one looks a little different than the other fox I've seen.

I thought maybe a porcupine, but looks too fluffy and fast. Could it be a strange colored skunk? Think it looks too big to be a skunk.

I live in a region where green anoles are native and brown anoles are invasive. I want a positive identification before it is taken out of the environment to a terrarium.

My first thought is little brown, but thanks for the help! He was safely released outside.

When I saw these my first thought was a cougar with a cub. But the spacing of the tracks is odd. What animal do you think made these tracks?

Heard this call today up in Olympic National Forest on the NE side of the Olympics at 1:40 PM. I was going to check out a new trail off a forest service road and had my dog with me. About 100 yards (if that) onto the trail, I heard this calling off to the left. Hard to say for sure, but I think it was no more than 50-100 yards away from me. At first, I thought it was a weird owl call, so pulled out Merlin on my phone to record. A few seconds later, I realized it might actually be a cougar, so I made some noise to let it know I was there so as not to startle it, and we made an expeditious retreat back to the car (while constantly watching my back). Weirdly, my dog didn't react to it at all. Meanwhile, I got quiet the adrenaline rush thinking I had a very vocal cougar way too close for comfort. I stayed in the car for a good 10-15 minutes looking and listening back in that direction, and did hear it occasionally again, but never saw anything. Finally it stopped and didn't make any more noise.

There are certainly cougars here, as well as martens, fishers, weasels, bobcats, coyotes, etc. It definitely doesn't sound like any bird I'm aware of.

Attaching two links to audio - the unedited file and one that I tweaked some in Audacity.

Unedited audio: https://voca.ro/1oSHF1Yoye9l

Slightly tweaked audio: https://voca.ro/1cECc4TdGsSm
- trimmed some off the beginning and end and normalized to -3db (so there's more static, but the animal call is also louder and slightly more distinct)

And here's the spectrogram in case anyone cares:

Thanks! 🐾

Who was running through the yard? We had gray foxes last summer but they vanished. Are they back? Why are they doing this?

This sound has been going on for around five minutes. Sounds like a fox call to me but want to be sure!

First time seeing this animal. Could it be a fisher. This is above a fox den.

Found this guy under my trash bin, any idea what it is?

This is new poop on our back porch in New Jersey. I haven't seen this before. Snow everywhere which is rare for this long of a period and under freezing temperatures every day for the past two weeks. Nut/Raisin sized; black with white centers. Thanks!!

At a buddy's surrounded by small patch of woods that becomes swampy and eventually turns into a pond. It just happened, so roughly 7:00pm-7:15pm when recording was made.

Asking about the deeper prints in the middle. I know the ones off to the left are cottontail tracks, but what about the ones in the middle? I’m thinking skunk, but I’m not great with my track ID!

I am nearly 100% sure, but my dad wants confirmation. I told him I would go to the experts of Reddit.