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  • English
    • Red Fox
    • Cross Fox
    • Silver Fox
  • Scientific names
    • Vulpes vulpes
    • Vulpes fulvus
  • French
    • renard roux
    • RENARD
  • Dutch
    • Vos
    • Gewone vos
    • Rode vos
  • Spanish
    • ZORRO
    • Zorro Rojo

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What

Red Fox Vulpes vulpes

Observer

nukular

Date

May 24, 2012

Place

Berdorf (Google, OSM)

Description

Not the fox, but its den, I was looking for the young foxes, because I found their mother dead next to the road...I couldn't find them, but I saw 4-5 dens...If anyone knows what I can do now, just tell me :)

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What

American Red Fox Vulpes vulpes fulvus

Observer

wabbytwax

Date

May 20, 2012

Description

I have been looking to get a photo of a fox in this area for 2 years and today I finally got what I wanted. I saw this fox walking along the road while I drove through the park so I parked up ahead and got up on a trail where I could see the fox coming up the stream. My intuition paid off and I was able to get a great view of the fox with a young groundhog in its mouth walking along the creek. It crossed and came up to the trail I was on where I followed it for a bit until I lost it in the woods.

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What

Red Fox Vulpes vulpes

Observer

stingraydoctor

Date

May 17, 2012 05:28 PM PDT
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Description from Wikipedia

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a mammal of the order Carnivora. It has the widest range of any terrestrial carnivore, being native to Canada, Alaska, almost all of the contiguous United States, Europe, North Africa and almost all of Asia, including Japan. In Ireland and the UK, where there are no longer any other native wild canids, it is referred to simply as "the fox". It was introduced into Australia in the 19th century. As...