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Red foxes didn’t show up in the San Francisco Bay Area until the 1980s, but within 10 years, they had established themselves and become an ecological menace. The red fox is a huge threat to birds.
Last winter, he set one of his cameras out on a ledge in Lassen Volcano National Park—one of the animal's last strongholds.
Discover the red fox, an intelligent and adaptable canid that is thriving in cities and pushing northward into the territory of its arctic cousins. Most people assume they need to head to more ...
Imagine attempting to trace your genetic history using only information from your mother’s side. That’s what scientists studying the evolution of the red fox had been doing for decades. Now, ...
About 6,000 feet up the south side of Mount Adams, wildlife biologist Jocelyn Akins stumbled upon droppings from a Cascade red fox. She found some more months later, thousands of feet below on the ...
Here's how to identify red and gray foxes, plus some helpful information about where the foxes live and what they eat. Hint: color isn't always helpful when it comes to telling them apart.
Even though they are called red foxes, the small members of the dog family come in a variety of colors. The most common is an orangish-red that most of us think of as the true color of red foxes.