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Are Foxes Getting Bolder? | Earth Unplugged
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2019
- Feeding urban foxes may seem like a kindness, but are we having an unintended effect on their behaviour and health?
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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😂
I realize it is kinda off topic but do anybody know of a good place to watch new tv shows online ?
Oi, u colled me a fat fox mate? I'll bash ye 'ead in I swere on me moom
fat fox's not a healthy fox lmaoo i died
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.
@@abhignavijjapurapu209 parisian toast with raw egg is the best, worth the risk
@@abhignavijjapurapu209 whoosh
Elfat , globalists will have us all
Eating worms and insects soon enough 😂
Foxes aren't daft, either!
"we're living the fancy life" - the fox probably
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?
I also live in the GTA. Urban foxes regularly approach people in my neighbourhood. They live so close to humans and are often accustomed to handouts and friendliness from people so they start behaving more like dogs. I was walking early one morning in June in a residential area and saw a very young kit, probably just starting to explore away from its den, walk right up to me expectantly. It even walked alongside me for a short while, as if it was my 'off-leash puppy'. They learn early that people = food/affection. The ones I saw last summer were burying squirrels in people's flower beds - caching food, which they do when there's a surplus of food available. Basically they had more than they can eat. No wonder they like the suburbs and urban areas and stick around!
'Their dental structure is quite unusual for a carivore' uh yeah perhaps because they're omnivores?? XD
The biological order they come from is called carnivora. So are technically carnivores, but they're also omnivores.
The BBC are too busy being woke, to even read the Wikipedia page on red foxes.
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.
"Oh my gosh. Worms! Yuck. You think they eat those?" - "Probably, those animals...!"
- Mr. and Mrs. Fox, I think
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.
You made the idea of fat foxes sound hillariously cute in an unfortunate way
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.
Tom Fitton agree.
42 jade not of foxes though, ask any expert. Feeding foxes is dangerous for them on many levels.
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.
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.
Thank you! I was coming to say the same thing. It's such a poorly designed experiment. Even if country foxes eat berries and worms, that doesn't mean they like to eat them. There's no baseline to see which of the "natural" foods they prefer. Maybe they would never take the berries even if there wasn't sausage next to it. Furthermore, how can you compare berries to a sausage roll. Why not a raw mouse compared to a sausage roll or something a little more equivalent. How awful for a somewhat reputable source to display such poor practices. It just furthers misconceptions.
Yes! My thoughts exactly
Maybe they should've place the sausage roll and the eggs closer to the bush and the eggs and sausage roll just right near the house as a second experiment to prove a point
I work paper distribution in Copenhagen, and I can confidently say that Urban foxes are FAR FAR braver around humans than rural foxes, the difference is IMMENSE.
Rural foxes will spot you 100 meters out and keep an eye on you and get the fuck outta sight real fast.
Urban ones, well if they are skittish they will flee when they realize you are nearby and able to see them(or they see your lights)
Inner city urban foxes, oh they can be convinced to stop and look at you if you talk to them, they are much less fearful to the point where they seem more upset about moving lights as that means danger, than humans on foot, the instant your on foot in an inner city at night and its you and a fox? If your brave you can get into pet distance with little fuss, wont recommend it but they aint skittish
Well yeah who would want fruits over protein when it's an option
I would for a start. We only need 30 to 40 grams of protein a day. About the size of a small matchbox. That is tiny. For humans fruit is delicious. Having to plough through the protein is just drudgery.
@@mbaker335 excessive protein in humans, especially from red meat is carcinogenic
Sunbears, Black bears just to name a few
note that these are carnivorans
@@mbaker335 yup. And are digestive systems are better at digesting plant matter
I rather berries
Nah that poor guy just missed breakfast is all.
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.
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.
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.
1:38 sounds like Sim City
I regularly feed foxes who come into my back garden, I buy 8 pork sausages rolls for £0.95 from Asda, and I also give them jam and margarine sandwiches, I currently have 3 foxes who I see on a daily basis
We back on a river in Delaware, US. We have lots of foxes...
Even foxes are becoming obese just by eating human's leftover junk food
Slow but sure domestication process going on.
Why would he eat worms when he has the option of eating sausage lol
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.
Just as useful as a barn cat in truth
but why do they only live for 2-5 years?
Car accidents and extermination by pest control services.
Or hunters.
Or disease. Mange, especially, and it's very debilitating.
There's a difference between the average lifespan for a fox and how long they can live if nothing bad happens to them. Average lifespan is short for a number of reasons, but the main ones are (a) infant mortality is high - that's why foxes have quite large litters, and (b) the world is quite a dangerous place - a lot of foxes are killed by cars, some (too many) by gamekeepers - not so much by hunters now as it is illegal, and disease can be a problem. A few wild foxes make it to 8 years or more and in captivity foxes generally live longer than that, basically similar lifespan to cats and dogs; the record is 23.
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'm not fat, I'm just very rotund.
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.
“That’s a fat fox”
So the foxes came to our cities and now they adapted to our lifestyle, getting fat in the process.
Oh Dear!!!.
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...
I know its bad for them but.. DAMN that fat fox looks soo adorable.
Morel of the story, children… Don’t feed wild animals, take as many pictures as you like, but don’t feed them.
Fat shaming that fox tut tut ladies
Fox is my favourite animal to
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.
1. dogs don't descend from Gray Wolves, but another type of wolf.
2. you don't even remotely understand evolution by natural selection
Some wolfs hunt foxes Im pretty sure
Foxes killed my cats. I found my cats tail in my backyard
Very unlikely to have been a fox. Foxes are very cautious around cats. Cats have sharp claws and lightning fast reflexes.
@@Foxes-Raw-and-Wild as someone who had to rescue one of my cats from the literal jaws of a fox and has to constantly shoo them away from chasing the cats I have now because my karen of a neighbour keeps feeding the damn vermin and encourages them to my doorstep, I assure you it was absolutely a fox.
So its easier for me to befriend them? Hell yeah
It took the bread and jam home for the kits.
Вот это очень хитрая лисица 🦊 и она желает подкрепиться.
Moral of the story: Anything that gets fat will lose in the long run.
No, the moral of the story is, 'don't listen to the BBC, as they are too dumb and lazy to even read the Wikipedia page on Red Foxes'.
Foxs bury food, usually in neat straight lines
Hi
Eggos are best 😌☝️
Glorilla brought me here 😂
Me too!😂😂
what's the point of wasting that food like that
@@abhignavijjapurapu209 of course it is wasting bro. The red fox is one of the most aggressively invasive overpopulated species on the planet (humans defo at no 1)
When you produce food you take away energy, drain soil (which can only be cultivated on a limited number of times before it is exhausted), water, emit CO2, make packaging waste, cut down trees for agricultural land, and pollute (livestock feces, pesticides,etc) the environment.
Resources are finite, and they are running out. One needs to consume wisely.
Ecosystem and therefore agricultural Collapse is coming in the coming decades.
They should be fed spoiled stuff. Red Foxes eat carcasses normally too
@@abhignavijjapurapu209 Fun fact: only 4% of land mammals are wild animals. The other 96% are livestock (edit+pets and humans).
That biomass used to all be wild, and now humans have exterminated the wilderness to gorge on meat beyond any historical consumption instead.
@@abhignavijjapurapu209 Im a bio undergrad, ecology and genomics focused. The numbers I gave are correct.
Wait Ill fetch the study. Hope I can post it because yt removed my comments with links immediately.
This same statistic is in David Attenborough's doc "A life on our Planet"
(tho it gives an outdated statistic on only 10% of large fish being left in the ocean, thats data from 2003, now its even less)
@@abhignavijjapurapu209 very depressing.
EDIT; Omg it removed the study link aaaagh.
Write
The biomass distribution on Earth
Yinon M. Bar-On, Rob Phillips and Ron Milo
in the search engine
@@abhignavijjapurapu209 I recommend the above mentioned doc, as its very informative. Production valueis excellent too.
Thanks for this brief chat. Cheers
They go bad faster
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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?
Well, no.
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!
they eat veggies.
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...
Fat foxes 🦊 😂
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!
A sensible fox.
foxes are groovy