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	Red fox has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 2, 2004. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that four different continents host red fox populations?
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Numbers of annually killed foxes

in chapter 'Hunting': This looks like there is one "0" too many in the number for Germany, doesn't it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:3033:60D:1A87:3DA3:9D5C:372E:CA07 (talk)

It is correct per the given reference. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:46, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Actual range

Originally the sentence read "It is absent in Greenland, Iceland, the Arctic islands, the most northern parts of central Siberia, and in extreme deserts." and was referenced to https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/23062/193903628#geographic-range. However, that source says that it is found in Greenland and Iceland so I've removed that. At the same time the source clearly states that they are not found on Arctic islands. Yet the map in the source clearly shows that Baffin Island, a well known Arctic island, is part of their range. Additionally, https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/103/3/586/6516595 says that they are to be found on Bylot Island and Herschel Island, both Arctic islands (https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/iqaluit-residents-report-run-ins-with-foxes/ contains a picture by one of the researchers taken on Bylot). So what is the actual range?

What caught my attention was that I have seen both red and silver foxes Silver fox (animal) on Victoria Island in the Ulukhaktok, but that's just anecdotal. CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 19:12, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Main image in species box.

The main image is a good diagnostic image of a red fox, although the resolution is not very high. (1,285 × 964 pixels.)

This image is a QI and could be cropped for the species box

Rather than replacing the main image I supplemented it with a portrait that is also a Featured Picture. That edit was reverted.

The Red Fox has 45 subspecies, and both images that I have mentioned are of the pennsylvanicus subspecies. The main image does not have to have a North American bias for a species present on for continents. I am sure there are other wonderful images in the commons too. This is another Featured Picture.

Perhaps someone, not me, would consider changing the main image or supplementing it with a solid second image. Needsmoreritalin (talk) 22:25, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Range map inaccurate for Vancouver Island

Red Foxes are not native to Vancouver Island - this should be updated on the map. ~2025-31399-61 (talk) 13:08, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scent Glands violet smell citation

For the citation given under Scent Glands for: "The oval-shaped caudal gland is 25 mm (0.98 in) long and 13 mm (0.51 in) wide, and reportedly smells of violets." I read through it and I feel the citation could be improved. It is specifically referencing from the smell of dead foxes. Additionally, the pages given mostly just include mentions of foxes, the only page I actually found mention the violet scent was pg 474: https://archive.org/details/mammalsofsov211998gept/page/474/mode/2up?q=violet Finally this could be considered potentially an outdated citation due to being from the Soviet Union in 1998 but I don't know how relevant that is. The citations on the page for the Violet gland itself has better citations overall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_gland Acosnath (talk) 05:24, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]