Red Foxes

Red Foxes

The red foxes are my favorite specie of foxes. They are cute and they have a lot of interesting facts, so, I decided to talk about them.            

            The red fox is the most common fox. They can live in different areas like forests, mountains and deserts. This kind of fox also adapt to the human environment like the farms and large communities.

            The red fox are omnivores, they eat the rodents, rabbits and birds that they hunt, but they can also adapt their diet to the food of their home. They can eat fruits, fish, frogs and even pet food. Red foxes are usually nocturnal; they look for food in the night while other animals are sleeping.

             They use their ears and the nose to hunt their food. They can make holes in the trees to live there, or they can also live in prairies and farmlands.

            The season of the red fox mates is on January. Two months after the mating, the female gives birth between one and twelve kits. The mother has the responsibility to feed the kits with some fruits, but eventually, she needs to start brining them live food so the kits can play with the food and eat it. This is because they need to develop skills for hunting. A kit leaves their family when he is about eight months old.

            Foxes can act like cats. First, they stalk they prey, the same thing that the cats do. Also, they play with their food after kill it, like cats. And even if they are not hungry they catch mice to play with and then they let them go when they are done. 

Bibliography

Jhonson, Angelique. Red Foxes . Spain: Peeble, 2001.

History of Fox Hunting

            In England, hunting became popular before the Romans arrived to the country. Over the time, different animals like the elk, brown beer and the English wolf been hunted into extinction. After a lot of species had been wiped out, the hunters started to use some wildlife animals like quarry and in the 20 century, fox hunting became very popular like one of the four major blood sports.

           

     The beginning of fox hunting was in England, in 1534. In this country, the farmers began to hunt foxes with their dogs as pest control. But later, in 1700 the people started considering the fox hunting for pleasure like the favorite sport among the nouveaux riches.  Hunting was considering as a noble, healthy activity that was only practiced in country areas. This “sport” was use to show wealth as the celebration of a social hierarchy. Because of that, the fox hunting became a sport of an elite of aristocrats, nobles and the bourgeoisie.

           

        Now days, a representative group of people still practicing this sport.  According to the British government, there exist more than 1.3 million hunters and fans that only follow the hunt by foot or car. However, there is also a group that is against of fox hunting, they think that fox hunting is cruel an inhumane, because of that, in February 2005, the Hunting Act 2004 outlawed fox hunting with dogs by Act Parliament.

            

       Nevertheless, the decision of banning fox hunting cause grave uproar among the hunting communities all over the Britain and because of the demand of this people, the fox hunting became legal again. 

Bibliography

Gast, Nicole. The fox hunting ban in Britian . Germany : Grin , n.d.