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Photographs of foxes and hunting

A photograph of a Fox, Vulpes vulpes, with prey.

Red Fox Vulpes vulpes with prey.

The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) is omnivorous. The diet of the fox consists mostly of most of invertebrates, such as insects, molluscs, earthworms and crayfish. Common vertebrate prey includes rodents such as mice and voles, rabbits, birds, eggs, amphibians, small reptiles and fish. In urban areas, they will scavenge on human refuse.

A photograph of a Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes, sitting.

Red Fox Vulpes vulpes sitting.

The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a mammal of the order Carnivora.

In Great Britain and Ireland, where there are no longer any other native wild canids, The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) is referred to simply as "the fox".

The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) has the widest range of any terrestrial carnivore, being native to Canada, Alaska, almost all of the contiguous United States, Europe, North Africa and almost all of Asia, including Japan.