Foxes are featured in many stories and books as tricksters.
People use the phrase “wily like a fox” or “sly as a fox” for a reason.
Foxes are very smart in ways that matter: finding food, surviving in weather extremes, outwitting predators, protecting their young.
Foxes have incredible hearing. they can hear a watch trick from 40 yards away.
Fascinating Facts About Foxes
- Foxes dig underground dens where they take care of their kits and hide from predators.
- Their pupils are vertical similar to a cat, helping them to see at night.
- They have excellent hearing, it can reportedly hear a watch ticking 40 yard away.
- Despite being small in size, the fox is quite fast, they can run up to 45 MPH.
- Fox sometime catch a mice just to play with them, rather than eating them, when they
grow board, they let the mouse go. - They born blind and don’t open their eyes until nine days after birth. During that time, they stay with the vixen (female) in the den while the dog (male) brings them food.
- Arctic Foxes Don’t Shiver Until –70 degrees Celsius.
- There are many different types of foxes, and they are the most widespread species of wild dog in the world. Foxes live just about everywhere – in the countryside, cities, forests, mountains and grasslands. Arctic foxes live in cold climates far north, and fennec foxes live in the North African desert.
- Foxes eat just about anything, including berries, worms, spiders and small animals such as mice and birds. If they live in the city, they eat rubbish that people leave out. If they have extra food, they hide it in a small hole and eat it later when they are hungry.
mysterious ability
Like a guided missile, the fox can hunt its prey.
Finally i think Foxes are depicted as smart but usually not in a flattering way. They are known as devious thieves because they sneak in and kill small livestock in a cunning way. They aren't pack animals like wolves and coyotes (and not disgusting like coyotes either) and they like to kill live prey while acting alone. They are more like sleazy assassins which has both its good and bad associations with a strong problem solving component but with weak moral character.
If you agree or disagree let me now in comment and of course tell me why, also tell me what your prediction for its mysterious ability.
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Thank you @loveyo, that's very sweet of you. I'm waiting for more of your posts :) See you around Steemit!
and we all want to know what the foxes say as well
hahaha, how this can be done.
Love this. I'm a painter, and love to hear about animals that I’ve painted. This is my finished product…titled: Sly Fox (as you mention in your second sentence)
Thanks for passing on knowledge about the beautiful fox.