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Red Fox
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01
2009
 

Red Fox
by josieO

When anyone is said to be as sly as a fox, he is very sly indeed, for the cunning of this little animal has been observed for thousands of years and in many parts of the world. Long ago Aesop’s fables made the trickery of the fox famous.
The red fox found almost all over the United States and Canada is just one of the many varieties of common fox – others are familiar to the people of Europe, Asia and North Africa. The many varieties differ a little in coloration and size, but they are all typically foxlike in their cunning and intelligence.

The smartest of all the foxes are probably the English ones, which have been hunted for so many years. Old, wise foxes know many tricks to throw the pursuing dogs off the scent when they are being hunted. The scent of a fox comes from a small gland beneath the tail.

In the United States, the red fox lives both on the prairies and in forest areas, but it likes land where there is plenty of cover – bushes, trees, rough ground that give it a chance to hide. Here, if there is plenty of food such as birds, ground squirrels, rabbits, mice, fruit and berries, a fox is likely to spend the whole year virtually without traveling.

The red fox digs a burrow in a bank or hillside, or finds a hole ready made in a log or stump. In this the puppies are born in the spring. There are 4 to 9 of them, and both the father and mother take care of them and bring food. Silver and cross colors or markings or simply varieties of the commoner red color.

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