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Description
The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the fox species. Their fur color range is from pale yellowish red to a deep reddish brown for the upper parts, and white or ashy on the underside. The legs are usually black on the lower parts and the tail often is tipped with black or white, and has tail glands. Their eyes are yellow in adulthood. The nose is black or dark brown. Red foxes live in many different habitat around the world including forests, grasslands, deserts and mountains, having the greatest geographic range of all members of the Carnivora family. They can adapt well to human habitats such as farms and suburban areas, even quite large communities. The red fox's resourcefulness has earned it a legendary reputation for intelligence and cunning. They are distributed across all of the Northern Hemisphere, and there is an introduced population in Australia. The red fox use its keen senses of sight and hearing to track prey such as mice. A fox can hear a watch ticking up to 40 yards away! When it hears a mouse rustling, the fox freezes. Then it launches itself into the air and pounces. Sometimes a fox will play with its prey before killing it. With long legs and a slender body, a fox can run at speeds up to 30 mph.

Diet and Nutrition: Red foxes are omnivores and eat a highly varied diet. They feed mostly on small rodents such as voles, mice, hamsters, ground squirrels, gerbils, woodchucks, deer mice and pocket gophers. They also eat birds, rabbits, porcupines, hares, raccoons, opossums, insects and small reptiles.

Social: Red foxes are social animals that live in family packs. Such a family usually consist of a dominant mated pair and their litters of the current and previous year.

Size: 14 to 20 inches at the shoulder, 18 to 35 inches in body length with tails measuring 12 to 21.9 inches and weigh 6.5 to 31 pounds. The largest red fox male was 4 feet 7 inches long and weigh 38 pounds.

Description
The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the fox species. Their fur color range is from pale yellowish red to a deep reddish brown for the upper parts, and white or ashy on the underside. The legs are usually black on the lower parts and the tail often is tipped with black or white, and has tail glands. Their eyes are yellow in adulthood. The nose is black or dark brown. Red foxes live in many different habitat around the world including forests, grasslands, deserts and mountains, having the greatest geographic range of all members of the Carnivora family. They can adapt well to human habitats such as farms and suburban areas, even quite large communities. The red fox's resourcefulness has earned it a legendary reputation for intelligence and cunning. They are distributed across all of the Northern Hemisphere, and there is an introduced population in Australia. The red fox use its keen senses of sight and hearing to track prey such as mice. A fox can hear a watch ticking up to 40 yards away! When it hears a mouse rustling, the fox freezes. Then it launches itself into the air and pounces. Sometimes a fox will play with its prey before killing it. With long legs and a slender body, a fox can run at speeds up to 30 mph.

Diet and Nutrition: Red foxes are omnivores and eat a highly varied diet. They feed mostly on small rodents such as voles, mice, hamsters, ground squirrels, gerbils, woodchucks, deer mice and pocket gophers. They also eat birds, rabbits, porcupines, hares, raccoons, opossums, insects and small reptiles.

Social: Red foxes are social animals that live in family packs. Such a family usually consist of a dominant mated pair and their litters of the current and previous year.

Size: 14 to 20 inches at the shoulder, 18 to 35 inches in body length with tails measuring 12 to 21.9 inches and weigh 6.5 to 31 pounds. The largest red fox male was 4 feet 7 inches long and weigh 38 pounds.