The red fox, on the other hand, is the size of a large cat or medium-sized dog. It stands about 1.3 ft at the shoulder and weighs only 31 lbs. That means the gray wolf is six times the fox’s size!

Red fox home range sizes vary drastically depending on habitat ... The breeding season in New Jersey and other temperate regions occurs during January and February. Litter size is thought to be ...

A nearly complete skeleton of a red fox dating back to the Ice Ages has been unearthed in a northeastern Utah cave. A team of scientists from the Utah Division of State Parks and the USDA Forest ...

Unfortunately there are very few Sierra Nevada red foxes left. They’re among the rarest mammal species in North America. Already highly vulnerable to extinction due to their perilously small ...

“The Sierra Nevada red fox is a vanishing emblem of remote Sierra wilderness ... These foxes are jeopardized by inbreeding depression due to small population size and hybridization with nonnative red ...

The red fox is the only animal which is known to use the Earth’s magnetic field to hunt. It’s thought to be able to sense it using a protein in its eyes called cryptochrome. With fine warm ...