Interesting facts about Foxes

Foxes belong to the dog family, including wolves, coyotes, gray foxes, raccoon dogs and so on. Here are some so interesting facts about foxes — the animals with incredible adaptability like their cousins.

Foxes are live in dens or burrow underground.

They are known as solitary animals, yet they live in pairs in winter, their breeding season to court and mate. The male fox supports his mate and children by bringing food back to the family.

Have you heard the sound made by foxes? Interesting facts about foxes: they use the sound to call and attract their mates. It is a sharp and high-pitched scream which sounds fairly terrifying.

The newborn foxes, called cubs, cannot hear or see because their eyes and ears do not open until they are 2 months old. They live the family after 4 weeks of age.

Interesting facts about foxes: the baby foxes have a short nose like puppies.

Cubs die for many reasons, they can die because of dogs or badgers, or starvation and cold during severe winter. Sad facts about foxes: the greatest predator of foxes is the motor vehicles.

The very early technique cubs learn is to catch small rodents with a high pounce.

Interesting facts about foxes: besides underground burrows or dens, foxes are also known to climb trees and settle on low branches.

They are fearful predators at night. Interesting facts about foxes: Besides great vision, foxes have another layer behind the light-sensitive cells, called the tapetum lucidum to reflect light back through the eyes. This enhances the way foxes see in the dark. That is why we see their eyeshine with a green glow at night.

Interesting facts about foxes: instead of chewing the food, they use their shearing teeth to cut the meat before eating.

A range of a fox can cover the area of 10 hectares and more than 2000 hectares in urban and rural areas, respectively.

Foxes are the only type of dog that can retract their claws as cats do.

The food of foxes is so various. It can be berries, worms, spiders and small animals such as mice and birds. If living in the city, foxes can eat rubbish. They also store food when they get extra food and eat it later when they are hungry.

Sad facts about foxes: because of having beautiful fur, foxes living in the wild or being captive are being killed. 85% of products from the fur industry come from animals that are living on a fur factory farms. What farmers care about the quality of the fur, so they use a certain methods to kill these animals like anal electrocution. The result is quite good, but the animals have to suffer a lot of pain.

Grey foxes living in North America are the only dogs that can climb trees.

True facts about foxes, foxes are symbols of cunning and wisdom in many cultures. Some say that foxes can achieve enlightenment and when they reach a level of nine-tails foxes, they will have the power to transform into humans.