Paws For This Week’s Animal Facts: Fox Edition

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Oct 27, 2021 12:00 PM EDT

This week, we have an intriguing list of animal facts you definitely won't have to fox check. Get it?! 

Although foxes are known for their evil roles in fairlytales and stories, these woodland creatures are a lot more interesting than what Little Red made them out to be. Like, did you know there are over 37 species of foxes that exist all over the globe? Little Pigs across the world should build brick houses just to be safe. 

Sit back, relax, and enjoy a different side of foxes the storybooks didn't tell you.  

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    Red fox - Although foxes are related to dogs, they act more like cats. They climb trees, use their whiskers to navigate, and even stalk their prey like cats ICANHAS BORGER
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    Dog - Male foxes are called dogs while female foxes are called vixens ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER
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    Now this is what we love to see! Finally, the female getting a way cooler name that kind of sounds like a superhero. There should be an Avenger called Vixen and she could be sneaky and fast.

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    Nature - ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER. A vixen can have between 1-11 pups. The family, also known as a skulk or leash of foxes, live in the den together for seven months while the pups grow
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    Red fox - CANHAS BURGER Foxes' predators include coyotes, wolves, and bears, but humans pose the largest threat
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    Dog breed - Foxes smell really bad. They have a sickly, musty scent that comes from the glands at the base of ICANHAS their tails CHEEZ BURGER
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    I wonder how skunks feel about this. Seems to me like there may be a bit of competition of who has a smellier tail. Not that it matters, really, we still want to pet both of them. Smelly, not smelly, foxes - skunks less so - are so cute, we would pet them no matter how bad they smelled.

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    Felidae - CANHAS CHEEZ BURGER Foxes can make up to 40 different sounds, but their most common is a guttural chatter called Gekkering
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    Plant - Foxes are solitary animals. They prefer to hunt and sleep alone, except when they're busy raising their ICANHAS GHEL BURGER pups in their den
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    Ecoregion - CANHAS CHEEZ BURGER. Foxes use the Earth's magnetic field while hunting to locate their prey
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    Organism - ICANHA CHEEZ It's been BURGER reported that foxes have amazing ears and can hear a watch ticking from 40 yards away
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    Red fox - ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER. The Red fox is the most common fox species
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    Nature - ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER. The Fennec fox is the smallest fox and weighs roughly 3 pounds. It lives in North African deserts
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    Vertebrate - Some foxes are bred as pets. Unlike a tame fox, which has learned to tolerate humans, a domesticated fox is bred to be docile from birth ICANHAS CHE BURGER.
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    Snow - The Arctic fox, which lives in the northern most parts of the hemisphere, doesn't shiver until -94° F (-70° C) ICANHAS CHEEZ BURGER
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    Horse - Since the 16th century, fox hunting has been a popular activity in Britain. The higher classes would use a 6 pack of hounds and ride on horseback to track down a fox. Now, the decision whether to ban fox hunting continues to be a controversial subject in the UK. CANHAS CHEEZ BURGER
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    Photograph - Foxes are called clever, and cunning as they are portrayed as tricksters. This reflects the fox's adaptability, nocturnal habits, and tenacious ability to get into a hen house or escape CANHAS CHEEZ hunting dogs. BURGER.
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