We have been visiting Denali National Park in Alaska. It is a great place to see lots of animals!
This afternoon, I saw an animal in our camp. At first I thought it was a dog. It was a red fox! I had never seen a fox before!
Foxes are members of the dog family. Foxes weigh about 15 pounds. They have very long tails.
Foxes eat just about anything. Sometimes they store their food by burying it. Foxes live in dens, or holes in the ground.
A fox baby is called a kit. Most often, four babies are born each spring. The mom and dad fox teach the babies how to hunt and live on their own.
Foxes are very smart. There are many stories about the fox being sly or crazy. I think those stories might be true! A man in the camp next to us said that our fox stole his GPS!
For more information about foxes, go to http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/kids/animal-facts/pdf/red_fox.pdf
AND
http://www.seacrestwolfpreserve.org/pdfs/red-fox.pdf
You can also check out these books from your library:
Red Fox Running by Eve Bunting
Reynard the Fox by Rachel Anderson
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