ZOOLOGY : MAMMALS
- Description
- Foxes are members of the dog family but move and hunt more like cats. They are most active at dusk and dawn, and in winter can be heard making high pitched screams. Common across Ireland, they live in countryside and town gardens, often denning under sheds or in overgrown areas. In early spring, vixens give birth to 4–5 cubs, which are born blind and deaf and stay underground for several weeks before emerging to play and learn to hunt. Both parents help raise the cubs, which become independent by autumn. Foxes are generally shy and rarely aggressive, so they should be observed from a distance unless a cub is clearly injured.
- Place Collected
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- Exhibitions
- Under the Hawthorn Tree
- Catalogue Number
- BELUM.Lh818
- Notes
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