Red Fox Fact Report🦊

Red Fox Fact Report🦊

Foxes are small to medium-sized, meat and plant eating mammals.

They have a flattened skull, and triangular ears, a pointed,

slightly inverted snout, a long red and black feathery tail

usually tipped in white which is actually over double its

body length, they have piercing yellow eyes and

they have five toes on their front paws

while their back feet only have four toes.  

 

Foxes are members of the dog family. 

A female fox is called a vixen and

a male is called a dog fox, or a tod,

and baby foxes are called cubs, kits or pups.  A group of foxes is referred to as a skull or a leash. 

The fox is the only member of the dog family that is able to retract their claws like cats do. 

Red foxes live around the world in many various habitats that include forests, grasslands, mountains, and deserts. They also adapt well to human environments such as farms,small districts, and even larger communities. The red fox's cleverness has earned it a reputation for being intelligent and cunning.  Some Foxes also live in Fox Sanctuaries such as the Zaō Fox Village located in Shiroishi, Japan where they shelter and care for over 100 hundred foxes.

Red Foxes are hunters who feed off of rodents, rabbits, possums and other small game.

Something that is really interesting about the red fox is that they actually use the Earth’s magnetic field to find and locate their prey!  Although their diet can change as their habitat changes, they will eat fruits and vegetables,

Fish, frogs and sometimes even worms!  However if the Fox is living among human life they will eat pet foods and food scraps from the rubbish to save them from having to go hunting for their food. 

Foxes can run up to 48 km per hour!  They walk on their toes.  They have supersonic hearing and can hear a watch ticking from 40 meters away which also helps them locate prey.

When red foxes are afraid they grin, arch their back to bring them closer to the ground and lay back their ears.  Red Foxes do not make good pets because wildlife belongs in the wild, not stuck in a house, they need to be kept in the wild to develop life skills like how to hunt and how to defend themselves from predators.