The Fox website | Populations
The Fox website | Populations
The Fox Website
Mammal Group, University of Bristol
Red foxes or foxes, as they are commonly known, are currently the most common and widely distributed of all wild carnivores. Foxes are native in most of the northern hemisphere and their geographical distribution spans from North America to Eurasia and Japan. The northern limit of this distribution is the Arctic Circle and the southern is Central America, North Africa and the Asian steppes.
Foxes as invasive species
European red foxes have been introduced to Australia (1800), the United States and Canada (1600-1700) and various other locations in the northern hemisphere. Recently, they have been also introduced into Tasmania. In North America foxes rapidly spread, it is thought that this happened at the expense of the local fox subspecies (Vulpes vulpes fulva). The British introduced foxes into Australia for hunting.
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