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The Ecology of Urban Foxes

and related topics

This page has info on a lot of stuff I found out about red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) while studying urban populations of them for my Masters degree at the University of Minnesota. Each section listed below contains an edited version of what I wrote on the topic, and provides a way for you to get the full text, if you're interested. (Select the "Download" links, which call up text or GIF files, and choose the "Save to Disk" option from your browser.)

Note that references to other papers have been mostly left out of the edited text; they are included in the full versions. Although a bibliography is not provided with each part, a full bibliography is available separately, and is also included in the full version of the paper.

• Introduction
  • Introduction
  • About My Study
  • Photo Gallery (a group of thumbnail images linked to larger ones)
    
• About Red Foxes
  • Fox Life History
  • Fox Food and Feeding
  • Fox Dens and Home Ranges
  • Life Expectancy and Mortality
• Red Foxes and Other Species
  • Contact Between Foxes and Humans
    • How to find red foxes near where you live
    • Interacting with wild foxes
    • Foxes as pets (Bad! Bad!)
  • Other Species of North American Foxes
  • Other Urban Carnivores

• Links to Other Neat Foxy Stuff (text) - updated 9/22/97!
• Links to Other Neat Foxy Stuff (graphics) - updated 9/22/97!
• Download full text of paper
• Download Figure 1 of paper.
• Download Bibliography.
• Urban Fox Bookstore! (buy fox books from Amazon.com)
• Reader contribution section!
  • Backyard visitors in North Carolina.
  • Turkey barn kits in Maine.
• Credit where credit is due.

visitors since counting started on about Feb. 24, 1996.

All contents by T. Susman, except where noted. Date of last update: 6/25/2001

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