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Red Foxes
Found commonly worldwide in many different habitats, the Red Fox is a species of canine that is highly adaptable to different environments. One way to help it to survive is its diet, which contains a variety of food, from hares to carrion and rodents to earthworms. In this category, there are questions about the Red Fox’s appearance, adaptation, social unit, etc.
390 Questions
What is the habitat of the red talied hawk?
The Red-tailed Hawk ranges throughout North America to the central Alaska and northern Canada, and south as far as the mountains of Panama. Although not truly migratory, they do adjust seasonally to areas of the most abundant prey. In winter many of the northern birds move south. http://www.desertusa.com/aug96/du_hawk.html
As opposed to most people's beliefs, foxes usually cannot see as well as their canid cousins. A fox's vision is about as good or slightly better than a human's in terms of the distance a fox can see, but they are a lot more sensitive to movement than humans.
What eats red foxes in Australia?
Foxes are introduced to Australia - there is no species native to the country. And, unfortunately, nothing eats them except for birds of prey.
Why do red foxes have big tails?
the red fox has a pointed nose so it can easily sniff around find scent marks and sniff their cubs.
All vertebrates - mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and amphibians, animals with backbones - have ribs.
What is the color of the red foxes fur?
"The Red Wolf has a reddish coat, silver-grey forehead and darker signs on white legs and a cream underbelly." - From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Wolf Wikipedia also has photos that you can look at.
Depending on where you live, it may be illegal. It is illegal in many places to keep wildlife as pets (in the US, you might be allowed to nurse an injured animal back to health with the ultimate goal of reintroducing it back into the wild... contact your local wildlife department for details).
Aside from that, red foxes are by nature wild animals and not particularly suitable as pets.
There's an institute in Russia that has been breeding foxes... grey foxes, I believe, though I may be misremembering... for several decades in an effort to understand the genetics of domestication. Their most "domesticated" foxes are affectionate towards humans and act much like dogs; they're trying to secure permission to sell some of them as exotic pets. If you'd like to know more about this, there was a recent article in National Geographic about it.
What is difference between a red fox and a fox?
Grey foxes are smaller than red foxes, and live primarlily in Southern parts of North America; while red foxes are larger live further north.
Why do red foxes have sharp claws?
Hawks have sharp claws so they can grasp other objects. For example they could hold onto a tree branch or pick their prey up.
No, they aren't. In fact, they're pretty much never "red" (except in the sense that some people have "red" ... actually more orange ... hair).
See the related link for some pictures of the pelts of various subspecies of red foxes. You'll see that some of them are pretty much brown or grey.
A fox is generally smaller than other members of the dog family like wolves, jackals and domestic dogs.
What do a red fox's tracks look like?
It looks kind of like a dog. It has a wolfish (but smaller) head with tall ears. They are long and have bushy tails. The fur of it is russet red but can vary from light orange to black and it may have black paws, black ear tips and a white tail tip. The teeth are sharp but they are omnivores eating anything they can find, mostly small rodents.
it's a fox with red fur .they mostly live to 10 years in average.
an red fox is not red.It is black or dark brown with white tips.It haves very sharp claws becace it has to ripe apert mice and then eat it so that's how is looks like. thanks
What countries do the red foxes live in?
Yes, they are found in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Mali and Libya. These species are a bit smaller than the northern species. They can be from sandy coloured to light red.
What is the diet of the red fox?
Rabbits, voles, nuts, berries, brush, insects. They can eat almost anything as they are omnivores.
Yes, for the same reason we have them: to keep grit out of our eyes.
What is the species name of vulpes vulpes?
The tip of their tails are a different colour from the rest of their pelt. The Genus only consists of "true foxes". And are relatively small in size.
Are red foxes nocturnal in the US?
For the most part, red foxes are nocturnal, but there are some rare occasions they will venture out during the daytime. They do not sleep n a den, but rather out in the open curled up in a ball.
