• Question: Why have foxes recently started attacking humans?

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

      Kevin Mahon answered on 18 Jun 2012:

      Because newspapers and the media selectively report on it? There is no reliable data that I am aware of to suggest that foxes are becoming more aggressive and attacking humans more.

    • Photo: Joanna Cruden

      Joanna Cruden answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      I think there was a report once about the fox entering a house and biting a human but it most likely become scared and bit in panic as they don’t usually bite and they don’t attack humans. As Kevin says newspapers are very selective and exaggerate stories to sell the paper.

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