What is a female fox called?

Wow! Such a short lifespan... what a shame for such a beautiful animal.

It's amazing how fast they've become urbanised. I live near central London and they're everywhere now. Ten years ago I'd never seen one. I do like foxes and agree that they're beautiful animals, but they have become a bit of a nuisance. Their scent is pretty pungent and unpleasant, they tend to make a lot of mess rummaging through dustbins (I think you call them garbage cans in the USA) and the thing that annoys me the most is the noise they make when mating, which is surprisingly frequent and often wakes me up in the early hours. Still, live and let live and I'd rather have them relatively safe than in the country where they were brutally and viciously hunted, the blood hound tearing them to pieces. Fortunately, fox hunting is now illegal. I had to agree with Oscar Wilde's description of fox hunting: "The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible".

Saint Nine, humans have become a bit of a nuisance too lol!

Unfortunately, due largely to human expansion into their current/former territory most species have very short lifespans. (Not a criticism, just a fact, everywhere beneficial for us due to fresh water, fertile soil etc. wabs also once prime ground for other mammals....

Was able to photograph a vixen and her kits in Donnelly, ID. Beautiful vixen and her kits were eager to pose!

Any extra food I take behind our house which is fields and leave for the Foxes ❤💕🧡💙

Saint Nine, in this semi-rural part of the New Forest, a vixen took up residence in a hole at the base of a tree. Just across the garden from our back door. She learned to use the cat flap and for weeks I thought I was feeding a very hungry stray cat. Never saw her in the house, she slipped in at night. Clever creatures.

Saint Nine, It seems to me that any wild animal that becomes urbanized is invariably considered a nuisance, even though all they are doing is surviving. Think raccoons, pigeons, rats etc. All perfectly fine animals when in their natural habitats. Unfortunately we have destroyed their natural habitats. Tolerating their ‘nuisances’ is the least we can do.

We have one beautiful red fox who can occassionally be seen between dusk and dawn in our small town. So sorry about their life expectancy!

I didn't realize that the life span was so short in the wild. They are such a beautiful animal. Mares Moon

Nice to see the name

Lionessa, Only bats carry rabies

I've been waiting for years to have this information be useful

marimargo, we are living in their habitat. building on any available land.

Saint Nine, well if we weren't taking there homes away them by building on any available land.

I'm on hard level right now and from being so easy to quite hard

Saint Nine, Thank you for the cultural information. I agree with Oscar Wilde whom I have read!

I answered from the google

The question was so easy because I've been taught in school 😂

Wild animals should not be fed by humans. What we eat may not be healthy for the wild animals even though they may eat our scraps. Also, it encourages them the hang around people instead of their natural habitat.

I live in Manchester and nearly every afternoon/night the foxes and it's babies appear

Wild foxes are a Rabies Vector Species (along with coyotes, raccoons, dogs and bats), meaning they can spread Rabies without being symptomatic themselves. It's not advisable to feed or interact with them.

According to National Geographic (of many years ago) some great progress has been made in domesticating foxes. It came out of Russia's attempt to "farm" foxes for fur.

Duchess, Totally agree. We are like parasites to this beautiful Earth.

Woman on Fire, Humans are a very selfish species. If mankind could change just this we'd ALL be happier.

Saint nine, fat foxes not exist

In India, especially in Kerala (I'm not sure the same fox with short lifespan )will spread rabies in animals.

Wombat, yes, like a group of crows is called a murder

I swear people just woke up one day, picked up a dictionary and said “let’s flick through it, pick a random word, and use that as the name for a group of an animal species forever, just to confuse the future.”

A female fox is called vixen

Well i learned something new today

In Sweden, the foxes are very healthy and furry.

FaithfulReader, my mom had a fox fur.

Mascular and Feminine Back in the previous classes

FreezingJogger74101, 😶

PurpleUnicorns681, correct 👍

Lionessa, Well sorry to say but that’s mainly due to disreputable pet owners who refuse to spay and neuter their cats (and dogs) and then releasing their overflow into the wild. Unthinkable but unfortunately too true how humans are more detrimental to every other species on the planet they don’t deem as important as themselves. Extinction of so species looming in the near future is proof of our ignorance.

I love foxes 🦊

Saint Nine, Sounds like the massive overpopulation of cats in America.

Easy peasy 😎😬