Red fox
Vulpes vulpes
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Vulpes vulpes
- Class
- Mammal
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Canidae
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- At dawn and dusk
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania
- Habitat
- Forest, Grassland, Towns and farms
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- A red fox can hear rodents moving under snow, then leaps high and dives headfirst onto them.
- Unlike dogs, red foxes have vertical, cat-like pupils.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q8332 · All animals · All entries