Facts About Foxes

A group of foxes is known as a skulk or leash.

Feeding Facts

• Foxes are omnivorous, which means they'll eat just about anything, including the flesh, but not the skin or spines of a hedgehog.

Behaviour Facts

• Foxes use at least 28 different types of call, but we're not sure what each of them means.
• If a fox has more food than it can eat, it will usually bury it in the ground, cover it over with soil and leaves, then mark the spot with urine to scent the location so that it can easily find the same place later on.
• Foxes can run at speeds in excess of 40mph.

Breeding Facts

• Fox cubs are blind and deaf for the first 10 - 12 days of their life.
• When cubs have been weaned off their mothers milk, they are usually fed regurgitated food from the vixen.
• While foxes share an ancestory with dogs and wolves, the pupils of their eyes are vertical-slits, like cats.
• Also similar to cats, foxes have semi-retractable claws.

Survival Facts

• Apart from humans, foxes are the most widely distributed land mammals on earth.
• Mange is a mites disease contracted by foxes with symptoms which include crust on the skin, fur loss - bare patches around the tail and rump - scratching and chewing of limbs  Little is known about the disease or how to cure it.