How much do you know about foxes? The most interesting facts/cliffs about the fox
Did you know that a fox in biology shares the family as our domesticated dogs.The word Fox basically means „thick-haired tail“ . In this post you will get some cliffnotes about foxes in general, combined with photography (free to use for your project).
In earlier years common thought was that foxes are solitary animals, but studies in Oxford showed, that foxes had a significant social life in families. Foxes live in family tribes and have a complicated social life, which is not fully discovered until today.
Habitat:
Foxes do have the biggest habitat of all wildliving carnivores. From the far north polar circle From far north polar area until the tropical areas ,in Northamerica to Newfoundland and South Florida to Mexico. Europe until Australia.
That led to problems. Foxes were imported from England to Australia. The endemic marsupials were an easy prey for the foxes. Foxes were hunted down merciless. Until today New Zealand is free of foxes and fox hunting in England is a big thing.
Though it is the same family with our beloved dogs, foxes are generally smaller. Males are with up to 7.5kg bodyweight slighlty bigger than females and average 100-110mm long.
A fox has a lifespan from one to three years, but may up to live even longer than 10 years.
Nutrition:
A fox is not a cherry picker. He eats everything, what provides him with a high level of energy.
So its hard to say what a fox really eats, because it differs from area to area. In general he prefers easy pray, field rabbit or deer is usually out of his range, unless they are ill, young or very old.
He likes chicken though.
In urban areas foxes prefer waste and they are thieves. So they watch out for bird and catfood and try to steal it.
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I know only that I almost ran over two foxes last night about 100km apart from each other
Oh no, but glad they made it :) once found a fox in my pond -.-
They are for sure very cunning creatures!
They are indeed!
They are awesome! We have one residing in our back garden. I think it is it's go to place for rest and relaxation as it will always sleep either on the grass, on the wall at the back of the garden or behind the wall. It also now gets treats from me, it loves cakes ha ha!!! He doesn't run from us when we go out the back. I also have noticed when the container I put the food in when he is not in the garden so he can get it at any time it feels like is empty he moves it from the location as if to say hey look it's empty come fill it up but if it has food in it it will stay in the same place until empty then I either will see him in the garden and go and feed him and he will come up close to get it. He is cautious but has trust also as even when he knows we are there he will curl up ready for a snooze.
Really exciting article and nice photos