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Closes #843

Record and evidence

Adds Urocyon cinereoargenteus with a species-local behavior program, a US activity curve, attribution, and a focused behavior regression test. GBIF 2434566 and iNaturalist 42076 resolve at species rank. USDA FEIS supports range, habitat, diet, and tree climbing. The ADW account explicitly gives a typical wild lifespan of 6–8 years; lifespan_y: 7 is the marked midpoint. Its 10-year wild maximum and 12-year captive maximum were excluded. The ADW account also supports body dimensions and pelage. Sources and access dates are in the record.

ADW account text is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, retained with author attribution as the last-resort source for the typical wild lifespan and morphology. The iNaturalist taxon API source is separately recorded as CC BY-NC 4.0 for its required taxon identifier; the GBIF backbone covers the other external identifier. The USDA FEIS source is public domain. No restricted source collection was copied.

Activity and behavior

US iNaturalist place 1: 5,143 observations, tier A and usable. GBIF country US: 9,600, tier A and usable. The monthly curve is the mean of their shares. Observation frequency is an activity proxy.

fsm-gray-fox-v1 executes walk-gait feeding for small vertebrates, invertebrates, fruit and carrion, daylight shelter rest, and climb-gait flight from terrestrial threats. The gray fox's climbing escape is supported by USDA FEIS. Climb is a legal public gait; the agent guide says it requires no preview pose. Program parameters and diet weights are authored judgments where the sources do not quantify them.

Validation and preview

Tested commit: b2ac04e1c50d88fcea744b46c3758dee0e3aa346.

• Focused validation: 0 errors, 3 warnings, provenance 31/31. MissingShoulderHeight: optional value omitted. NonCommercialLicense: iNaturalist taxon and ADW retained and attributed as above.
• Repository self-check, all-species and all-locale validation passed; pytest: 348 passed, 8 skipped. Attribution is committed and current.
• I inspected idle, walk, trot, gallop, and rest in the local Chromium preview with software WebGL, including a frontal orbit. Limbs and tail remained attached; the rusty legs and gray body appeared on the intended parts. The previewer does not render a Climb pose.

Checklist

• Issue claimed; current main, identifiers, sources and licences checked
• Activity query totals, scope and usable flags reviewed
• Executed behavior actions and day/night transitions reviewed
• Attribution regenerated and committed
• Species, repository and locale validation and tests passed
• Every declared preview pose inspected
• One species in this PR; no private paths or source text in the diff

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Hourly maintainer review: b2ac04e

Disposition: changes requested for eye geometry; tree-escape execution held for contract evidence. No merge.

species/urocyon-cinereoargenteus/species.json:look.extra_parts[eye_left,eye_right] places each eye fully inside the head: absolute offset plus half-size reaches [0.14,0.12,0.46], inside the head's 0.5 half-extents. I viewed idle, walk, trot, gallop, rest; the eyes are invisible. Move the boxes onto exposed head surfaces and recheck every pose.

behavior.json:states.flee unconditionally requests flee(gait=climb) on threat/fear, with no tree/refuge selection. USDA FEIS, Cover Requirements supports climbing trees for escape cover, but public ActionSpec specifies neither a tree target nor ascent semantics. Provide applicable public action-contract/verification evidence or a fitting supported escape sequence and name the remaining representation limit. This is an evidence hold, not a demonstrated private-host failure. The new test asserts the literal climb action and graph edges; it does not establish tree ascent or exercise priority outcomes. Update the contradictory provenance.habitat.use claim that arboreal actions are unrepresented, and attribute any ADW-dependent behavior evidence to ADW.

Verified live accepted GBIF 2434566 and active iNaturalist 42076. ADW Physical Description and Lifespan/Longevity supports the 4 kg midpoint, 2–9 kg range, 1 m average and 6–8-year typical wild interval; seven years is its correct midpoint, distinct from maxima. ADW text has the disclosed NC-SA terms; iNaturalist Terms §2 provides default CC BY-NC context for contributor content. FEIS is a federal-authored species review with named author/date, supporting US range, foods, nocturnality and the disclosed local breeding examples. No images were reused. Authored diet shares are marked honestly.

All four feeding tags are reachable; priority-80 daytime exits cover ordinary activity; no month predicate restricts actions. US place 1/country US, Mammalia baselines and permissive activity filters checked. Live 5,143 + 9,600 totals and 8,736 GBIF month-bearing records reproduce all twelve curve values exactly. Existing records/regions are untouched.

At this head: focused 0 errors/3 warnings, 31/31 provenance (optional shoulder height, disclosed NC sources), self-check, all-species/all-locale validation and 348 passed/8 skipped; attribution regeneration leaves no species diff. Current-head validate is green. Tail stripe/rusty legs remain attached in the viewed poses; Climb has no preview pose. Private import/live-scene acceptance was not tested.