Scientific name: Vulpes Vulpes
Not at risk for endangerment
Red Foxes live across the USA, from Florida to Alaska, and Canada, not in high arctic and islands of BCs' coast.
The Foxes usually live in suburbone, rural areas, wetlands, parklands, woodland edges, and brushy fields.
Red Foxes adapted well to human colonization by stealing from farmers and garbage cans.
Red Foxes tend to hunt alone and stay solitary.
Red Foxes can hear rodents digging underground, and are able to jump up to 2 meters.
Red Foxes are generalists and carnivores meaning they can east many different species of animals.
Red Foxes main food sources are rabbits, birds, amphibians, fruit, and rodents.
Red Foxes can easily adapt to different environments, and live in many places because of their broad niche
Red Foxes mate in the winter and can start pregnant up to 49 to 58 days.
After mating female foxes build dens, in the forest floor, to give birth to and raise the pups.
Female Red Foxes can deliver between 1 and 12 pups per litter. The pups are born with brown or gray fur, which change to reddish-orange in a month, and with blue eyes.
Both male and female Red Foxes raise the pups until next fall.
Red Foxes main predators are wolves, coyotes, dogs, humans, bobcats, lynxes, and cougars.
Red Foxes have a symbiotic relationship with certain types of seed. The spines on some types of seed will stick to the coats of foxes, and travels far distances before falling off and growing.
Red Foxes also have a parasitism relationship with ticks. The tick stays on the fox drinking its blood; The fox is harmed with the blood loss and possible diseases the tick might carry.
Red Foxes have long snouts with reddish-orange fur across their face, back, sides, and tail.
Red Foxes also have Grayish-white bellies, chin, and neck fur.
Red Foxes have large and pointy black tipped ears; With fluffy white tipped tails.
Red Foxes are about 3 feet long by 2 feet tall.