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> We even get visited by some beautiful red foxes from time to time It's funny how urban adaptation affects perceptions of rarity. I live in fairly-central Lon
by mrec 8y ago
> We even get visited by some beautiful red foxes from time to time
It's funny how urban adaptation affects perceptions of rarity. I live in fairly-central London and you can hardly set foot outside after dark without tripping over a red fox or three. Out in the countryside they're still pretty wary (with reason, since farmers will shoot them).
Are urban foxes a thing in the US too, or is this still a UK phenomenon?
- germinalphrase 8y agoNot so much, I think. In the upper Midwest, it’s mostly squirrels and rabbits.
- mrec 8y agoWe get squirrels too. (Squirrels are awesome.) Rabbits, never.
- chrisco255 8y agoWe have coyotes in many suburban areas.
- kasey_junk 8y agoChicago at least has many _urban_ coyotes. I see them at least once a month walking my dog & I live in a pretty dense area.
- weberc2 8y agoWhich neighborhood? I'm downtown and I only ever see rats. I've never seen a coyote anywhere in the metro area.
- kasey_junk 8y agoHyde Park
- Nasrudith 8y agoThere are some suburban ones but they tend to be pretty skittish - you generally see them through windows or cameras. I had one funny experience where they apparently moved stealthily enough that the motion activation mode on a security camera had them appear to teleport - it showed up for a few frames, appeared elsewhere in frame and then disappeared. Really it is tameness that does it as they don't scatter before we even see them. The woods being quiet is because we scare the hell out of nearly everything, constantly walking on two legs like a bear ready to fight. Leave cameras behind and it gets noiser and more active.
- scruple 8y agoI routinely come across coyotes in my neighborhood. Just this past week, I was out walking my dogs at 11AM and had one emerge from the bushes in the middle of a residential neighborhood. It was being harassed by a Blue Jay. It came within about 5 meters of my dogs and I, while we stood off the to the side to let it get past us and head towards the dry creek bed that they use to navigate the area. They're in our neighborhood for the rabbits.
- sologoub 8y agoSaw some urban foxes in Montreal - a tourist left a backpack with his dinner (rotisserie chicken) on the ground while the group went to take photos, upon their return they discovered that the foxes were already splitting the “catch”. California has some raccoons and coyotes. Haven’t seen foxes in cities, but we do have them in the countryside.
- Flozzin 8y agoI live in Minneapolis Minnesota. We have raccoons, opossums, squirrels, rabbits. That's all I have seen for small ground critters that aren't living in parks.
- hyperbovine 8y agoSkunks, there must be skunks. They are really thriving in (y)our neck of the woods due to milder winters.
- duxup 8y agoI'm on the edge of the urban and rural suburban world so most wildlife is still a bit more wary, but yeah the urban foxes a few miles from me are far far less shy.