Are Foxes Getting Bolder? | Earth Unplugged 

Humans: "That's so weird that they like the sausage rolls more than the worms" I mean.... me too

"Fat fox" with a British accent sounds like they're swearing😂

The animal chooses the high-caloric food since this would benefit it the most, and given foxes' great sense of smell I'm sure they can pick which food items those are. This instinct to seek high calorie food doesn't just go away because of abundance - it's why both humans and foxes get fat when provided with an over-abundance of these high calorie foods

I too wouldnt like to eat worms if I can eat human food.

"we're living the fancy life" - the fox probably

'Their dental structure is quite unusual for a carivore' uh yeah perhaps because they're omnivores?? XD

I'm a retired Autoworker from Ontario, Canada. Between 2002-2016 I worked at the GM Assembly Plant in Oshawa, On. In 2008 I was transferred to a new area of the plant. It was 6am. A half hour before shift start. I was new to the area. There was a break area I decided to go to before work started. This was a smoking area and was on the roof above my work area. It was 5 stories above ground level. As I relaxed on a bench having a coffee. I saw a small shape coming towards me from about a 100 meters away. It wasn't light out yet but as it got closer I could see that it was a fox. I was pretty surprised seeing the small predator on a 5 story roof. This was also a huge manufacturing complex. I have seen many different species of animals on the grounds and inside of the 2 plants I've worked at over the years. This was more unusual than most though. I've seen all variety of bird from Sparrow to Seagulls to Mocking Bird... Mice, Rats, Snakes, Frogs, Possum, Raccoon, Cats and Coyote. I've never seen a Coyote inside or on the building though...lol. This Fox wasn't stopping. I shouted, "Get out of here!"... Kept coming...till it was just feet away and still coming. Walking...not running aggressively. Non the less I was worried. Thinking it must be rabid. I actually had to put my leg straight out pushing the Fox back with the sole of my shoe. It backed up a couple feet, looked puzzled at me. I stood up and it trotted back the direction it came. I think it wasn't rabid but habituated by employees possibly feeding it. In the St Catherine's facilities. There was a population of feral cats in the basement. That were trapped and removed before a construction project was started. When complexes of these sizes with massive footprints are built. It's inevitable that they will hold a population of local wildlife. Sometimes even animals or insects not native. Many crates and packages from other countries are received. Who knows what stow aways may have been in them?

Doesn't surprise me at all, we dump various scraps out in the woods nearby semi regularly just to see what we pick up on the game camera. Over time theres a pretty familiar pattern on whats eaten first; anything meat is eaten immediately, then anything fried, then processed foods like stale chips or cereal. Fruit is eaten after that (unless its deer, deer love fruit) then last is stuff like stale bread, cooked veggies and deer corn.

Hypothesis: Our food is better in every way, especially served hot and ready on a plate; so of course the foxes will choose it over dirty worms and fruit.

The problem with wild animals eating human food is that the animals have no where else to go. As people move into animal territories, the animals are forced to eat what they can find and if food left out by people is the easiest way of finding food, then they'll go for it. Neighborhoods can't just leave the areas they move into, so either people need to stop throwing out food or just live with fat foxes.

Nah that poor guy just missed breakfast is all.

"Oh my gosh. Worms! Yuck. You think they eat those?" - "Probably, those animals...!" - Mr. and Mrs. Fox, I think

I have foxes in my garden and love that they visit, but I don’t see any good reason to feed them. There is more than enough food out for them already and they are excellent hunters.

Well yeah who would want fruits over protein when it's an option

1:38 sounds like Sim City

wow! that is such a news .. and shocking it is strange how getting accustomed to certain types of diets - though harmful - can become habitual I am actually thinking of us - humans - as well. We over-depend on not-so-healthy foods but sadly become unaware of their artificiality. We should reconsider this; especially with the children as it is easier to shape their behaviours.

We back on a river in Delaware, US. We have lots of foxes...

Maybe the fox chooses the egg, sausage roll and bread with jam because those foods taste better to them. When they have a choice, they go for the tasty foods.

Oh Dear!!!.

Even foxes are becoming obese just by eating human's leftover junk food

I'm not fat, I'm just very rotund.

Glorilla brought me here 😂

Seems like the fox is angling for a place in the human home. This and seeing some urban foxes just hopping into laps for attention and affection, they might be trying to play the same self-domestication game the cat did. They're certainly adorable enough to do it.

Why would he eat worms when he has the option of eating sausage lol

Slow but sure domestication process going on.

The paper plates the food is on made me laugh. I bet that's how it did the picking and choosing it did; it wouldn't have had anything if the food had just been on the ground.

I feed the foxes that visit our garden but I always give them a healthy diet, and on the whole they are in quite good shape, I have some film footage of them on my channel under the title Red Foxes, the food they have in front of them in the video is a mix of bread, Weetabix broken in two ( this is really for the birds ) mixed in with dried complete dog food; as you see in the film footage the foxes pick out the small pellets of complete dog food and seem to enjoy it.

“That’s a fat fox”

but why do they only live for 2-5 years?

I know its bad for them but.. DAMN that fat fox looks soo adorable.

I used to feed a fox regularly, I tried a variety of foods (don’t judge me please), his favourite food was Cheetos (yes the cheesy crisps), and meat and fish. He didn’t like bread (which was a surprise) and he didn’t care too much for dog biscuits either, although he would eat one if nothing else was available. I learnt that foxes are some fussy eaters! Who’d of thought it, I thought they eat anything.

So the foxes came to our cities and now they adapted to our lifestyle, getting fat in the process.

The fox around here kept coming in and eating my dogs food. Now whatever the dog doesn't eat and all our leftovers go into bowl and he has at 9 every night, literally waits near the door. In return though he's killed just about every rat around here.

Im in Vaughan, Ont. saw a fox last night, standing in the middle of the road..I approached in my car as close to him as possible, and pur down the window, and yelled at him to get off the street....he looked and me and got off the street, I pulled up across from him and asked him if he were stupid...not all humans are nice you know....with that I left...to live another day...

Fox is my favourite animal to

For crying out loud, BBC, this was a terrible experiment, and you know it. Even if the point you are making is a very valid and important one. The food is in the open, near a house. The foxes are going to want to grab whatever is closest, fastest and safest to grab, whilst hopefully getting the most calories out versus the effort and risk involved. That's basic behaviour, and this example does not show any change. They went for the eggs and the sausage rolls first, as they were closer to the cover of the bushes, easiest to grab and run with, and contained the highest calorie count. They were unlikely to make any other choice. A lot of the general change you're talking about has been largely due to urbanisation of the population, rather than direct human intervention. They take advantage of the best food source available. They don't have to put too much time and effort or risk in to get to the high calorie reward of processed food in a bin. What would be very valid and very interesting would be an actual look at changes in urban foxes fear responses in response to human proximity, and whether they're more inclined to take risks even when there's no environmental pressure forcing them to do so, in contrast to their more rural cousins.

It took the bread and jam home for the kits.

Foxs bury food, usually in neat straight lines

So its easier for me to befriend them? Hell yeah

Вот это очень хитрая лисица 🦊 и она желает подкрепиться.

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I guess we'll all just have to put on the red jackets and grab a horse, is that what u mean?

Moral of the story: Anything that gets fat will lose in the long run.

Fat shaming that fox tut tut ladies

They go bad faster

Morel of the story, children… Don’t feed wild animals, take as many pictures as you like, but don’t feed them.

they eat veggies.

foxes are groovy

Eggos are best 😌☝️

Didn't we do the same thing with wolfs we feed them and they protected us as we were their food source then we tamed and trained them and called them Dogs.

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what's the point of wasting that food like that

They're becoming humanoid

Foxes killed my cats. I found my cats tail in my backyard

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You should not feed wild animals.

"Experts warn..." Don't they just? Just look, for example, at all the dire Climate 'predictions' made by them over the past twenty years - but only if you want a laugh!

Fat foxes 🦊 😂

No worries, they can get as bold as they want, I’m done with them. I tried to work with them by getting a dog to keep them away from the chickens, geese, ducks....but it’s no use, they keep coming in and kill poultry or lambs, often even more they can carry. So, that’s that. From now on no more lamb and poultry for the foxes but a healthy diet of large quantities of heavy buckshot and partition-bullets. The foxes may be getting bolder, they won’t get much older...

Fatphobia!! A fat fox has HAES! Right? Next they will be demanding winter furs in bigger sizes... and wanting to pay the same price as twiggy ones. 😘

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I feed a fox and my fox is fussing it loves Cornish parties sausage rolls eggs sardines in oil sandwiches chicken! Didn’t like vege rolls!