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A home range is typically occupied by breeding male, a breeding female and their cubs. Often a second non-breeding female (the offspring of a previous year) will remain in the territory and help to rear the cubs. Very occasionally two females may rear cubs in the same territory or even in the same den. Males fight to defend their territory during the mating season in January and February. A female fox, a vixen, is pregnant for 53 days and has a single litter per year. Cubs are born in March/April and the average litter is of 4-6 cubs. The tiny fox cubs only weigh 50-150 grams at birth and are not able to open their eyes till they are at least 9- 14 days old. At 4-5 weeks of age they are finally able to leave the den but still need their mother to look after them until they are weaned at 8-10 weeks. During this time the vixen may choose to move her cubs several times to different dens for safety. The fox family stays together until the autumn, by which time the cubs are adult sized, at this time the young will disperse from the parents range to find their own territory.
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they kill them with a gun
Are kits young ones of Arctic foxes?
yes, they are accually called Kits for all species of fox.
Do foxes eat herons?
Foxes are opportunist hunters, and will take a young or injured bird when hunting for food.
How animals protect their young ones?
Animals protect their young in different ways. Kangaroos for an example carry their young in a pouch while birds keep their young in a nest.
How do lions protect their young ones?
hide them in special places
Do animals eat their young?
no, they actually protect them. they are babies just like how we protect our babies. they have the gift of loving and knowing the young ones.
How do bears protect their young ones?
They charge who ever is in dangering the cub(s)
Where are young foxes born?
A vixen raises its young foxes in an earth.
In what season do gray foxes have their young?
Gray foxes have their young in the spring, usually April or May.
Where do foxes have there young?
Foxes have their young in their mates den or the female finds a hide-away where she feels safe and comfortable to have her young.
How do parents protect foxes?
The father is more protective than the mother, but they both protect their babies. They keep their young in the den for four weeks, at which point the kits emerge and learn from their parents.
How do gray foxes raise their young?
Gray foxes have their kits in the spring, usually April or May.
