• Question: why do we see more foxes now than we used to?

    Asked by jessc to Charlotte, Jo, Kevin, Louise, Valeria on 18 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Kevin Mahon

      Kevin Mahon answered on 18 Jun 2012:

      Foxes are moving more and more into urban environments due to humans feeding them in cities etc. They’re simply going where the food is!

    • Photo: Joanna Cruden

      Joanna Cruden answered on 18 Jun 2012:

      There are no predators to kill foxes in the UK, they are pretty high up the food chain and in the suburbs people leave food for them so it is easy access. The urban fox is hard to kill because of high people populations mean we cannot get the guns out to shoot them as pests so they continue to breed and thrive. I think they are pretty smart animals.

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