The fox's fur has beautiful colors. Its colors are red and white, but it is mostly red. It's 38 to 50 inches long. The fox has an interesting habitat. It lives in bushlands, forests, wetlands, and farmlands. People hunted foxes for the fur. But then they tried to kill them so they wouldn't kill their animals first! They had different methods to kill foxes. They would walk in fields with shotguns and shoot any fox that popped up! Another one is that they would fly over a field. Someone would hold a shotgun and shoot any fox they saw! Here's one more method. They would feed it poison meat. |
But there was one disadvantage, the food chain. The animals that eat foxes would keep dying because of poison!
I got my information from COLORADO WILDLIFE by Jeff Rennicke, RED FOX by Merebeth Switzer, THE FOXES by Mark E. Ahlstrom, and WONDERS OF FOXES by Sigmund A. Levine. |
Have you seen an animal with a bushy tail and red fur? It is probably a red fox. It eats animals like a muskrat, mouse, rabbit, and sheep. It can burrow under the snow and still hear a mouse squeaking in the grass. A fox cub can hear a mouse squeaking 300 feet away. It lives in Colorado in the mountains or on the plains. The red fox's enemies are farmers and porcupines. I got my information from Nature's Children, FOXES. |
Illustrated by Thomas H. |
Imagine you are in the forest at night and when it becomes morning you see four black feet, a long nose, a white tipped tail, and big black ears. It is a Red Fox. The Red Fox is the only fox with a white tipped tail. Foxes can be silver, black or red. The Red Fox enemies are people, coyotes, eagles, bobcats. They eat grouse, quail, duck, rabbit, muskrat, gophers, mice and voles. Red Fox has 42 teeth when full grown. Red Foxes don't hibernate they grow a heavy coat. The Red Fox is born in a den 4 to 5 at a time. I got my information from ON THE TRAIL OF THE FOX by Claudia Shnieper. |
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Creeping through the cold, frosty grass, ready to spring at any moment,
the sly old fox spots something. Could it be a mouse or a grasshopper? No,
it's an earthworm! The fox jumps in a split second. When it comes back,
it has a nice juicy earthworm in its mouth! But it likes mice the most.
A mother brings home special food for the kits.
