CASTLEMONT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BIOLOGY (FOX)

FOX
Characteristics Habitat Classification Food supply Relationships with Humans Behavior Conclusion

CHARACTERISTICS
Nocturnal mammals.
Can live for up to 10 years but most of them can live for 23.

Smaller than other members of the family Canid.

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When fox pups are born, they are unable to see, hear or walk. Grey foxes who live in North America are the only type of dogs who can climb trees!
A foxs home is called a den.

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Like a cat's, the fox's thick tail aids its balance. A fox uses its tail (or "brush") as a warm cover in cold weather. A fox uses its tail as a signal flag to communicate with other foxes.

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Male foxes are called reynards. Female foxes are called vixen. Can run nearly 30 miles per hour. Small, slender body are designed for speed and agility.

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Mark their home range using feces and urine. The dominant female gives birth each year to a litter of 2 to 12 pups.

Mate in winter.

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The foxs calls.

HABITAT
They also adapt well to human environments such as farms, suburban areas, and even large communities. They live in family groups while they are young. Adults live alone or in pairs. Foxes do not live in packs like wolves do.

HABITAT
Their dens are usually in sheltered places, such as in rocks and grasslands, and they have small burrows to prevent wolves from coming in.

HABITAT
Individuals and family groups have main earthen dens and often other emergency burrows in the home range. Dens of other animals, such as rabbits or marmots, are often taken over by foxes.

HABITAT
Larger dens may be dug and used during the winter and during birth and rearing of the young. The adult foxes change dens time to time to prevent attacks by coyotes and infections of parasites.

HABITAT
Edge forests Deserts Tundra Cities Suburban areas

CLASSIFICATION
Alopex
Arctic fox The only canid with a coat that changes color seasonally. Have very thick winter fur to keep them constantly warm

Summer coat Winter Coat

CLASSIFICATION
Canis
The Ethiopian wolf

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Cerdocyon
Crab-eating fox Active at dusk Short and thick fur

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Dusicyon
Soft, thick fur Medium-sized

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Vulpes
Have the largest geographic distribution of any carnivore Have 13 types of Vulpes

The Red Fox The Fennec Fox

FOOD SUPPLY
Foxes eat just about anything (omnivore). If they have extra food, they hide it in a small hole and eat it later when they are hungry.

FOOD SUPPLY
Hunting is strictly an individual affair; no other animals are tolerated to join in. Although they care for and tolerate those within their family unit, individual foxes want all the food for themselves.

FOOD SUPPLY
Insects Fruit Rodents Lizards Left over foods from humans

RELATIONSHIPS WITH HUMANS

Fox hunting
Very popular sport in England Most people hunt the fox for game because of its skill in trying to avoid capture. Chase a fox for miles on horses using dogs to track its scent.

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Fox hunting
They usually dont kill the fox. In 2004, a law was enacted in England and Wales to ban hunting foxes with dogs. Fox hunting with dogs is still legal in many other places, such as Ireland, North America and Australia.

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Fox hunting
An activity in which hunters would ride on horses following a number of dogs who would pursue the exhausted fox before ripping the animal apart.

One of the causes the foxes become extinct.

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Graph of the Sierra Nevada Red Foxes that are being skinned monthly

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Domestication
A domestication silver fox The breeding project was set up by the Soviet scientist The new foxes became more tame.

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Domestication
The result of nearly fifty years of experiments in the Soviet Union and Russia to domesticate the silver morph of the red fox.

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Culture
Appears in folklore as a symbol of cunning and trickery. Familiar animal possessed of magic power.

BEHAVIOUR
Solitary animals and do not form packs like wolves. Top speed for the fox is about 48 kilometers per hour. Foxes use their speed to catch the faster prey.

BEHAVIOUR
They remain in their own home ranges for life.
Communicate with one another by growls, yelps and short yapping barks.

CONCLUSION
The fox are in the edge of extinction so, we as a responsible human should stop hunting these poor creatures.