Story friend meets real animal

Discover Foxes

Mammal · canid (dog family)

Pip is quick-thinking in the stories — real foxes are clever, adaptable animals with wonderful hearing.

Pip the Fox

Meet the real animal

Two red foxes on a grassy bank near their den, one sitting up and one walking on the sandy path below — Red foxes near their den in Izembek, Alaska.Photo: Gordon Leggett · CC BY 4.0

Foxes belong to the same family as dogs and wolves. Red foxes live in woods, fields, mountains and even towns, which makes them one of the most widespread wild mammals in the world. A fox has a bushy tail called a brush, and it can hear tiny movements under grass or snow.

Look closer

Look at the fox's tail. How long is it compared with its body? What might a bushy tail be good for?

Animal passport

Animal group
Mammal — part of the dog family
Where they live
Woods, fields, mountains and towns across much of the world

Did you know?

A fox can hear a small animal moving under thick grass.

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