Foxes

Red foxes usually have around four cubs/kits at once.

Foxes do eat a considerable amount of fruit and may eat a banana. I have found, however, that they do not care for the strong flavor of this fruit and generally prefer fruits such as grapes and berries.

it might, in some miracles. but usually not.

Sexual..As all vertabrates.

Yes in some places they are close. Where I live we have foxes in town and in an hours drive I would be in bear country.

• well it depends on what bird it is like a eagle of hawk or a buzzer would all eat a DEAD fox but the would never try to kill a live one.

it blends in with its surroundings

A fox

A male vixen is a fox, a female fox is a vixen, although a male fox can also be called a dog.

In genus Canis (Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes) the number of chromosomes is 78, no barrier to interbreeding exists in terms of chromosome segregation.There are some physical barriers due to size and behavior, which help maintain the separation of species in the wild. Not so with Canis vs. Vulpes. The question is not really whether species do interbreed, but whether they can interbreed under any conditions. Foxes, are out at ~8% sequence divergence, and only have 34 chromosomes, so a dog-fox hybrid probably is not viable.

Easy pray to catch and eat.

Try shooing it away, and always remember their more afraid of you than your afraid of it, if you just shoo it away, it will probably dart back into to the woods or where ever it came from.

Squirrels are big compared to anything smaller to it but to humans or anything bigger than it, the animal is considered small or tiny.

• foxes have about 2 babies a year

A fox den is a hole in the ground where a fox lives. Oftentimes, foxes will use the abandoned dens of other creatures, and dig them deeper, to around six or seven feet underground. Usually, fox dens can be found near water, on farmland and cornfields.

It is unlikely that a fox would kill a dog UNLESS it was of a small variety and also a non aggressive type. Foxes are naturally shy animals and would normally eat rabbits, voles and earth worms. They are a major pest to hens and will kill more than they carry off and this is to do with the history of foxes who in the wild and in cold climates will kill everything they can and then store what they could. One thing to watch with foxes is that should you have a family pet die, bury it deep as foxes will dig up the animal and cart it off. I have lived in the countryside for 60 years and I have never heard of a fox killing a dog. My own dog is a fell terrier ( border/lakeland cross ) and he is more than a match for any fox. Foxes, unless they are an old dog fox are quite small and slender and cats and dogs can inflict injuries on the fox and that is why the incidences of fox attacks are small and often steeped in folklore.

Yes, the swift fox has been seen to run 60km/h but that's like 40 mph.

The fox is popular because on YouTube every body watches "What Does The Fox Say".

I have held a gray fox for a local wildlife rescue group since it was a few weeks old. It is not releasable back to the wild. The animal is now 14 years old but is showing signs of age. These foxes usually have a life span of 7-10 years.

Well, if I'm not mistaken, it's not an affirmed "no".

I think in Massachusetts they require a permit that requires you to have 2 years experience with the animal, and have that "experience" affirmed and written down in some proof form, then you need to represent that to fish&game department, and see if they will grant you the permit.

It's honestly I really long process, even if you're completely qualified, and it's difficult to do, but you CAN get one, and then it should be legal in your state - but know that you'll need to check you town/city laws too, because some completely ban them...

Good luck!

The plant benefits becaus the seeds stick to the fur of the fox and spread out to reproduce, the fox is not gaining any benifit nor losing anything. therefore being a commensalism.

Adult foxes come in many sizes, with adults of some species weighing as little as 2 kg (4.4 lb). The largest species, the red fox, can reach 10 kg (22 lbs) in weight. So while most foxes are similar in size to a domestic cat, some species are as large as medium-size dogs.

So, far only other foxes (actually, one fox, one vixen). Maybe someday people will learn enough about DNA to make foxes, but for now it's only the vulpines [a fancy word for foxes] doing it.

It's a principle of genetics that only members of a species can have offspring of that species. Dogs can't have kittens, nor cats puppies.

Now, if one could look back millions of years, we might find a creature that wasn't quite a fox, and whose offspring weren't quite the same as itself. Those could have been the first foxes, but the change from non-fox to fox would likely have been very, very subtle (hard to recognize).

We're pretty sure something like that happened, maybe more than once because we now know that somewhere, sometime (probably about 15,000 years ago in what is now northern China) a wolf gave birth to a pup that grew up to be a dog. Maybe someday, somewhere (probably the mid-21st Century, in Russia) a new kind of fox will be born that will come to be called something other than a fox.

But for the time being, only foxes make foxes.

No, they are not harmful to humans. They are known for raiding henhouses and carrying off small poultry. Some people could consider that harmful. They may also take baby farm animals for food, like kittens. It is certainly sad, but it's the way life is.

Nevertheless, they don't harm humans.

A male fox is called a reynard, a dog, or a tod, although the latter two are less common.