Let us know the red fox amazing facts
- COMMON NAME: Red Fox
- SCIENTIFIC NAME: Vulpes Vulpes
- DIET: Omnivores
- AVERAGE LIFE SPAN: 3-4 Years
- SIZE: 35-50 cm
- Weight: 2.2-14 kg
- Speed: 50-68 km/h
- Red foxes have long snouts and red fur across the face, back, sides, and tail. Their throat chin and belly are grayish white.
- Red foxes have black feet and black-tipped ears that are large and pointy.
- One of the most noticeable characteristics of the red fox is the fluffy white-tipped tail.
- Fox families, also known as a skulk or leash of foxes, live in underground dens. When the vixen has her pups a litter of foxes can range between one and 11 pups they live in the den together for seven months while the pups grow.
- The pups live in the den with the vixen, while the dog fox gathers food.
- These underground dens also provide shelter from predators, such as coyotes, wolves, and bears. Humans, however, pose the largest threat to foxes. While no homeowner wants foxes meandering around their property, there are safe ways to remove them without harming or killing them.
- Yep, foxes stink. They have a sickly, musty scent that comes from the glands at the base of their tails.
- If you start smelling this around your home or in your crawl space, it may be an indicator that foxes are near.
- Unlike their coyote and canine relatives, foxes are solitary creatures. They prefer to hunt and sleep alone, except when they’re busy raising their young in their den.
- It’s reported that red foxes can hear a watch ticking from 40 yards away Their impeccable hearing helps them to identify prey underground.
- What’s even more interesting is that foxes use the Earth’s magnetic field to locate their prey.
- That, in combination with their sensitive hearing, makes them pretty fierce predators. Watch a red fox catch a mouse in the snow, here.
- Even though an adult red fox is only about half as tall as a toddler, it would likely have no problem jumping over a fence six feet tall.
- Their piercing eyes and pointy ears are two of their most distinguishing features, but both serve very practical purposes.
- Red foxes have good visual acuity, used for seeing small movements from far away and navigating dense forests as they sprint around after prey, but their most useful sense is their ultrasonic hearing.
- Red foxes have the best known maximal absolute hearing sensitivity of any mammal.
- They can hear a mouse squeak from 100 feet away.
