Understanding farm wildlife: The red fox — a smart and strikingly beautiful animal

Except for humans, red foxes are the most widespread mammal across the northern hemisphere. Being extremely adaptable, red foxes live in starkly different habitats, from the Arctic tundra to arid deserts.
To us in Illinois, all this seems improbable because we see them so at home in our countryside. We claim them as our own, an animal of open agricultural fields that spends extended periods of time in wooded areas only when severe winter weather forces them into cover for food and shelter. Although, on occasion, red foxes den out and raise young on the edges of wooded areas.

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