Audubon's ferocious print of a fox showing every tooth after being caught in a trapper's bite is appropriate to the "fox news" I received yesterday. My neighbor reports seeing a family of young foxes in the woods about one hundred yards behind our home. We hear the foxes at night, they have an almost unearthly cry which easily identifies them. They are one mammal which has no fear of advertising its whereabouts. The Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes, is common around here and I welcome this family to our land. After a horrible and destructive infestation of rats in the barns and chicken houses around here, both the fox and the Black Snake are predators which will provide a useful service to the farm ecology.
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