2007-01-01 08:51:15 · 17 answers · asked by jbizzle 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
There is quite a big urban fox population in London. I live in North London and we have a fox in the garden every few nights. I've also seen them trotting up the road ahead of me when I've been out in the evenings.
2007-01-03 04:59:43 · answer #1 · answered by fizzy_wolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Urban foxes ae very common right across England. One lives in a garden near my home in a Derby suburb and I have seen it several times when walking the dogs in the early morning or late evening.
The following is from the Essex Naturalist Trust website:
The urban fox is just the same as a country fox except that it has chosen to set up home in the town. Foxes, being adaptable and enterprising animals, colonised towns in the inter-war years as suburbs sprang up in once rural areas and as our growing prosperity meant that they could find enough food there to raise their families.
In towns about one third of their diet consists of food they have scavenged, either from our garbage or put out for them specially (as many people do). The balance is made up of rats, mice, feral pigeons, rabbits and other small animals that they have hunted, augmented by worms and insects. At certain times of the year berries can form a major part of their diet: at blackberry time for example their droppings are full of blackberry seeds.
2007-01-02 08:00:42 · answer #2 · answered by derbydolphin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Urban Foxes in London are very very common. I work in Westminster near Parliament and have seen a fox. I live in south London and I see foxes all the time, including my own garden. They are usually dirty looking and not like the cute image most people have. They carry disease and can infect pet dogs with mange. I think it's time for a cull of urban foxes, there are too many.They thrive because there is so much junk food and litter on the streets.
2007-01-01 09:08:14 · answer #3 · answered by sthlondon_guy 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Oh yes, urban foxes are very common. You see them everywhere. I think that a long time ago, they migrated to the big cities to escape being hunted in the countryside. Plus there's an endless supply of food for them in the cities, people leaving their junk food lying around: burgers. chips, kebabs etc. So word got around the fox grapevine, 'hey, come to the city, lots of free food and you're safe from hunters'!
What puzzles me though is that they live on a diet of junk food and yet they're so skinny! One would think that eating all that junk food, there would be a fox obesity epidemic!
2007-01-03 09:32:14 · answer #4 · answered by JOCELYN E 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a large urban fox population. I understand that Hillingdon in West London has the largest. They can get food easily and they move about along railway tracks and through back gardens
2007-01-01 10:15:39 · answer #5 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, not uncommon. I saw one walking down Finchley Road ( Golders Green area) like it owned the place! Also if you live near a railway track, you'll see them. They'll live anywhere they are undisturbed and can get food. Nice dustbins in London!
2007-01-04 10:33:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We got them in our gardens here in London, they've come about in recent years. The population growth seems to be out of control. And yes I've had far too many sleepless nights with the strange sounds they make...
2007-01-01 16:06:20 · answer #7 · answered by tigress_taz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I haven't seen one in London, but there is one that comes into my garden almost every night, it frightened the living daylights out of me, the first time I saw it.
2007-01-04 11:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by Sierra One 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are lots. Do you ever hear a horrible screeching sound at night that sounds like someone's in pain? That's often foxes.
2007-01-01 09:08:46 · answer #9 · answered by amazingtessa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you only just moved to London cos they are as common as us in the city
Had a Russian friend over who was amazed to see the numbers and wanted to take pics back home of them to show her friends and family as in Moscow they arent seen as much
I have a large family living around my home and can get woken up quite often by their barking!!!!
although will say the cats get on ok with them!!!
2007-01-03 10:24:51 · answer #10 · answered by ruth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋