19 Facts About Red fox

Red fox is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.

Red fox originated from smaller-sized ancestors from Eurasia during the Middle Villafranchian period, and colonised North America shortly after the Wisconsin glaciation.

Apart from its large size, the red fox is distinguished from other fox species by its ability to adapt quickly to new environments.

Domestication of the red fox is underway in Russia, and has resulted in the domesticated red fox.

Red fox is considered a more specialised form of Vulpes than the Afghan, corsac and Bengal foxes in the direction of size and adaptation to carnivory; the skull displays far fewer neotenous traits than in other species, and its facial area is more developed.

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Genetic testing indicates two distinct red fox refugia exist in North America, which have been separated since the Wisconsinan.

The largest red fox on record in Great Britain was a 17.

The Red fox is generally less common in areas where the dingo is more prevalent, but it has, primarily through its burrowing behaviour, achieved niche differentiation with both the feral dog and the feral cat.

Consequently, the Red fox has become one of the continent's most destructive invasive species.

Red fox has been implicated in the extinction or decline of several native Australian species, particularly those of the family Potoroidae, including the desert rat-kangaroo.

Red fox burrows are divided into a den and temporary burrows, which consist only of a small passage or cave for concealment.

The most common nematode species found in red fox guts are Toxocara canis and Uncinaria stenocephala, Capillaria aerophila and Crenosoma vulpis; the latter two infect their lungs.

In Greek mythology, the Teumessian Red fox, or Cadmean vixen, was a gigantic Red fox that was destined never to be caught.

In Celtic mythology, the red fox is a symbolic animal.

Red fox originally appeared as a secondary character in the 1150 poem "Ysengrimus".

Red fox reappeared in 1175 in Pierre Saint Cloud's Le Roman de Renart, and made his debut in England in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale.

The popularity of Red fox hunting in Great Britain reached a peak during the 1700s.

In January 2014 it was reported that "Fleet", a relatively tame urban red fox tracked as part of a wider study by the University of Brighton in partnership with the BBC TV series Winterwatch, had unexpectedly traveled 195 miles in 21 days from his neighbourhood in Hove at the western edge of East Sussex across rural countryside as far as Rye, at the eastern edge of the county.

Red fox was still continuing his journey when the GPS collar stopped transmitting due to suspected water damage.