• A red fox’s tail is about one third of its length.  It is used as a warm cover in cold weather and as a signal flag to communicate with other foxes.
• The male red fox is called a dog, while the female is called a vixen. A young fox is called either a ’Kit’, ’Pup’ or ’Cub’. A group of foxes is called a ’Skulk’.
• The red fox will continue to hunt even when its tummy is full. It stores the extra food under leaves, snow or dirt, to be eaten later.
• They can jump up to 3 meters in the air.
• Foxes can be hard to tell apart because red foxes can sometimes have gray fur. Red foxes have black legs. They also have black-tipped ears (seen on the backsides), a white-tipped tail and a more dog-like face compared to the grey fox.
• The fox’s ears are large and cup-shaped to funnel sound, and rotate in different directions to pinpoint the location of its prey.

Least Concern. Foxes help control pest populations such as rodents and rabbits. Foxes also help with the dispersal of seeds by eating fruit. They are threatened by humans hunting them for their fur and they are considered to be pests due to their taste for chicken.

• If a gray fox has more food than it is able to eat, it will cache the remaining food and come back to eat it later. It will mark the spot that the food is buried by peeing on it.
• The female fox can give birth to between 3 and 7 pups, although 4 is average.
• Foxes can be hard to tell apart because red foxes can sometimes have gray fur. Red foxes have black legs. They also have black-tipped ears (seen on the backsides), a white-tipped tail and a more dog-like face compared to the grey fox.
• The fox’s ears are large and cup-shaped to funnel sound, and rotate in different directions to pinpoint the location of its prey.
• Also known as the tree fox, the grey fox is the only member of the dog family that can climb trees.

The gray fox is listed under least concern according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and their population trends continue to be stable.