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Their "barks" are terrifying, but their "Hihihihi" laugh is adorable with that enormous toothy smile.

Foxes getting more dog- like with human interaction is so mind blowing, it proves their cousins wolves went through the same transformation and that there’s a universal benefit of having this set of traits as part of the symbiosis

As an arctic fox fan, you might be interested to know that arctic foxes are the only mammal native to Iceland. It's believed that they crossed over on the ice sheet from Greenland during the ice ages. So there must have been a population living entirely on the ice, subsisting on sea birds. This is also how they survived on Iceland.

Tibetan fox looks like the only animal that looks like it was handed to a taxidermist before death and then set free

Someone needs to send this channel to biology teachers. These videos are perfect dor those chill fridays before breaks. Its so entertaining/informative

In the UK red foxes are domesticating themselves in urban areas like cats and dogs did 😅 like, they just walk into homes like they own the place and are chill af 😂😂

As a fox lover, i've never felt so proud to hear this many good things about foxes. I literally felt like a proud mom 😭😭

A momma red fox made her den under a wood pile at the edge of the property at my last place and in the spring her kits would come out and wrassle in the yard every morning for 3 years in a row, cutest thing you could imagine seeing!

3:54 I took a wilderness education and survival course in college (learning survival and naturalism skills as well as how to teach them) and one of the stated end goals of the course's techniques was to learn how to move quietly enough and with enough awareness of natural ques to find a fox and approach it without spooking it. No one succeeded, but now my students find it genuinely spooky how quietly I can move around the classroom when I choose to.

I like how that crow at 6:01 thought the polar bear was coming for it and almost flew away, but stayed when it realised it was going for the fox

@7:57 that has to be one of the best segues into a sponsorship ad I have ever seen!

I can't believe the domesticated Foxes started looking more like dogs...

My parents had a family of red foxes living right at the edge of their farm last year. They were conserned about the cats, but it's said that a fox won't target a healthy cat unless necessary, and seems like they had enough food around. My parents saw the pups even on the yard close to the house at times. They didn't get too close since the dog's fenced area goes around the house. It was neat to hear about the fox pups, sadly I only visited during the day so I never saw them. But I have a cool deer skull that they left in the ditch after a meal 😂

Mad Respect to this birthday man. He's taught us something we never imagined possible.

" and they have enough pretty privilege to dodge the smoke everybody seems to have with coyotes" 😂😂

one of the few youtubers that i'm glad to see do well in the real world. congrats on the book, mate! i'll be sure to pick one up.

Happy birthday! Thank you for educating people on why access to a domesticated population does NOT mean something makes a good pet. So many people see "domestic" and assume the being is fit for all lifestyles. Frankly, we shouldnt be domesticating new creatures at all. We have enough and we can barely handle those.

I love them so much. They're like the only wild animals I have to stop myself from having a real "why friendshaped" moment before reminding myself wild animals should be wild. Also happy birthday!

[10:03] you don’t tell me they didn’t base Fantastic Mr Fox off of another type of fox. i swear man 😂

I live in the UK on the outskirts of London and over the course of the last 10 years, foxes became more and more prominent. From me seeing one was such a big deal, I even filmed it when it showed up to every other night I see them walking down the street at night. And even more frequently, hear them nattering and screaming at each other. About an hour before I made this comment I heard them. I even managed to find fox puppies in my local park 2 years ago!

I've never actually seen a fox in person, so I assumed they just.. weren't a thing in my home state of Arizona. Turns out, they absolutely _are_ a thing here. Seems like they're just very good at going unseen even in a desert hellscape like this.

Only once in my life have I seen a fox with my own eyes. It was after the blasting of rock to make way for a new neighborhood beside my own. A red fox with her 2 babies in tow poked their heads from the grass as I drove past as if to say "There is no where left for us." The line you gave about their penchant for memorizing human activity and avoiding us gives me hope they are doing just fine, denning just off the beaten paths.

7:07 Legit my favorite animal in existence, so adorable!!!

Your videos bring me so much joy! I'm in my 40s and I've just decided I want to be like you when I grow up.

"there's about 23 flavours of fox seasoning this big ball of dirt and water." Your writing is AMAZING every single time.

One fine day with a woof and a purr A baby was born and it caused a little stir No blue buzzard, no three-eyed frog Just a feline canine little CatDog. CatDog, CatDog, alone in the world is a little CatDog! Out on the road or back in town All kinda critters putting CatDog down Gotta rise above it gotta try to get along Gotta walk together gotta sing this song. CatDog, CatDog, alone in the world is a little CatDog! CatDog (CatDog) CatDog (CatDog) Alone in the world is a little CatDog! CatDog (CatDog) CatDog (CatDog) Alone in the world is a little CatDog!

"It's the only animal able to side-eye you while looking you dead in the face." I'm dying.

I Lived in Annapolis for a year in an upscale thickly wooded neighborhood, foxes were EVERYWHERE! And it’s true they make some of the absolute craziest sounds you’ve never even imagined 😂, and ALL night to.

I hope that sponsor paid you a bonus for that SEAMLESS transition. The skill. The craft. I'm in awe.

*HAPPY BIRTHDAY!* 🎉 My dude is the newer generations' David Attenborough - Imparting his immense knowledge of animals on the masses & doing so in an incredibly entertaining & articulate manner! Props my dude!

6:55 As someone who's grandparents have a place in the hamptons, this made me *WHEEZE*

5:18 the way I screamed when I found this out- I LOVE ARCTIC FOXES

My mom has always told me I look like a fox. You have explained to me why: “can look like it’s giving you the side eye while staring directly at your face”

The red fox is the Rathalos of the fox world - complete with sub- and rare species. Also congrats on another successful trip around the sun. Here's hoping for many more

fennec foxes are my entire personality im so glad they got the recognition they deserve

Foxes are pretty common where I live. They actually seem to actively choose to have their babies in town, and I would often see one(not usually the same one) driving home when I worked night shift. I also once saw a massive coyote when I worked night shift. Honestly coyotes are a lot harder to ignore since they make a lot of noise.

It’s a good day when hood nature uploads.

Foxes are just adorable little creatures, no wonder so many people love them.

2:50 someone played armed with wings, that's the wind cavern I hear

The guy holding the fox kit at 13:00 had me almost screaming, it’s so cute! And holy crap, I never knew how BEAUTIFUL cross foxes were and didn’t know they existed until you talked about them!

An illustration of foxes' mutual hostility even to their own species: -At the beginning (edit: and at the end, I think) you include a clip from Save-a-Fox- There's a wildlife rescue organization focused on foxes called Save-a-Fox. Their rescues are either surrendered pets (because some folks don't find out until too late) or fur farm culls. One of the latter came to them a short time ago already missing an ear, so they name him Vincent Van Gogh. They're very cautious about introducing new younger foxes to the population, allowing them to mix only when they are sure of compatibility. Well, Vincent wasn't at that stage yet. Not long ago he was in a play yard for the younger foxes, which is separated from the adult foxes for safety. It seems one of the adults burrowed underneath the bite guard just to get to Vincent and attacked, injuring one of his legs so badly it needed amputation. And these are well cared-for, well-fed foxes. Imagine how it gets when there's an actual struggle for survival. Foxes are genuinely hard to spot. I live in an area with lots of gray foxes (and cougars, and coyotes, and bobcats) and I've seen them maybe 5 times over the past 10 years. One of those times was early in the morning when one of my cats decided to get into an argument with one. There was no physical contact, and they're smaller foxes, so I don't think the cat was in any danger, but nothing was a better illustration that they're really CAT.EXE running on Canine hardware. The body language was absolutely identical. It might as well have been two cats arguing.

I used to live in the Japanese countryside and red foxes surrounded my particular area. I'd often see adults walking/dashing down the streets late at night and occiasionally a kit. They're so CUTE.

10:32 I’m laughing cause it’s hella funny. 😂

I remember looking so hard for grey foxes in wild areas. The first time I actually saw one was while hanging out at my university’s farming area. This university is close to Washington DC, and I didn’t know we had grey foxes in the area. Thank God I had my camera with me.

Happy birthday! And thank you for making a person who used to NEVER be afraid of animals to terrified of everything!

We had a grey vixen who lived near us and would show up in our back yard to see what food the Husband had put out for the birds & squirrels. One summer, she brought her kits a couple of times. That was awesome. And Happy Birthday!🥳

I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel recently! I've been binging all of your content and it's so cool to find out all of these facts about animals. I loved learning about the domestication experiment in my Animal Behavior class, it was cool to see you mention it here! Thanks for all the great videos, looking forward to more stuff!

You are a skilled and eloquent presenter. I thoroughly enjoy what you do. Kudos!

I was in Yellowstone once visiting Mammoth Hot Springs, and a cross fox walked right past our car and crossed the road a little ways behind. Only wild fox I've ever seen, and it was a shiny! (Also, credit to my older sister for spotting it first, she was very proud of that)

Happy Birthday man, and thanks for spreading the word with proper, unadulterated animal facts all this time!

The Tibetan fox looks like a high person was asked to draw a fox from memory, but halfway through they forgot what they were drawing and finished it with wolf parts. They even used both color palettes. 😂 I like the cute baby face and chibi proportions of the fennic, and growing up I liked arctics, but my fave still has to be the og red fox. Cat software on dog hardware with the voice between a cheetah and a dog kept on leash, in visual but not physical range of their favorite person. My dad told me for years about the fox domestication story. People friendly foxes? Neat. Housepet? Nope.

I am very grateful for your channel. I use your videos as a learning tool for my 6th grade classes . It breaks up the monotony of the day for my students. Fantastic work !

Tibetan foxes out here with that lightskin stare 🤣🤣 🎶 Siiiiiiiinnnn sinnn city WASN'T MAADE FOR YAAAA🎶🤣 10:11

You waited till the end of the video to tell us it's your birthday so you can focus on the video, that is what I call being professional. Happy birthday man 🎉🎉🎉

Happy belated birthday, man. Love the content, and I can't wait to see more.

Happy Belated Birthday!! Great Video! Great writting, and narration!! You have a gift for making learning about anlmals entertaining!

At 11:08 that kit fox is Keira at an Animal Sanctuary I volunteered at in Reno, Nevada (Animal Ark for those curious). I got to feed her a few times, though we figured despite being in a semi-outdoor enclosure she was still hunting a good deal of her own food. I've seen her catch every kind of rodent native to the area, multiple kinds of lizards, and a snake at one point. I spent hours watching her and the other foxes there. My dream job is to be able to study foxes of any sort in any habitat. They fascinate me to no end with their subtle and clever ways, even if it means studying them is kind of a pain. This video made me really happy, as I feel they're often overlooked as 'common' or 'uninteresting' when they are so more complex with their unique family structures, languages, and observative natures than we can understand with our current knowledge.

That fox really went like “this is my camera now” and ran off with it 🤣🤣🤣

A fox lives near me. I couldn't be happier! I've only seen her twice (and one time it was from a distance), and have heard her screaming twice (it was unmistakably a fox scream). I've lived here 4.5 years. Yup, they're pretty elusive.

I’ve seen a cross fox! I’ve been trying to figure out why it looked like a red Fox but was more silver/grey with a slight tint of red but couldn’t really find anything that matched. That’s so cool 🤩

Happy Birthday, Good Sir! I love learning more about animals I *thought* I already knew a lot about. I also really appreciate how you always take the time to explain why wild animals make terrible pets, no matter how friend-shaped they are. And right now, I *especially* appreciate that you tell your viewers to "Hug your mother" because mine just passed two weeks ago, and I'm so glad I hugged her *all the time* while I could. It's right up there with "drink water" as one of the most important things for a person's wellbeing.

happy birthday, mamadou!! you are a gift that never ever stops giving. as someone whose most favourite animal is the fox, i'm so glad we have a whole video dedicated to them -- but i am also of the mind that they should never be house pets lmao

Foxes are fascinating not only their appearance which has gotten some great mythologies especially in Japan but it being able to climb trees which is something for a canine and the ability to thrive in various environments is something you don't really see in many animals speaks for itself. There's actually a family of foxes that live near or in my Nan's backgarden truly fascinating creatures.

I always love your videos & your ads make me LOL! Half the time I don't realize it's an ad until half way through! You're that good!

Anyone who’s ever had a significant interaction with a red fox is never the same, they’re amazing animals. I have a video on my channel of Buddy, my urban fox friend I had for years, introducing me to his kits.

So happy he's doing a video on foxes. I adored them when I was a kid and still do to this day.

You are great at this! And Happy Birthday! Wishing you the best this year!

A fox has always been my favorite animal and this just proved my point on why they are some of the greatest animals

The tibetan fox made me fall to the goddamn floor while laughing. I must thank you for that rush of dopamine. And also thanks for my daily dose of "animals are amazing" .

In conclusion: If you want fun fox content, Finnegan the Red Fox and the rest of his group are here on KZfaq thanks to their owner.

I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation and learned things I'd forgotten I wanted to know about foxes. Well done to all involved.

I just found your channel- binge-watching to my heart's content....happy birthday🎉! You're very well-spoken and😂 funny!

10:17 beautiful image of Big Ounce saving the world from a tibetan fox uprising. RIP you will be forever remembered.

When the world needed him most: He returned.

I have seen many of your videos and I'm always impressed by the amount of information and also your incredible delivery

0:48 23 flavours of fox seasoning this big ball of dirt and water.

One thing to note about that Carnivore meetup you mentioned is that the meetup is of the Order Carnivora, which is the catlike and doglike order (literally split between caniform (doglike) and feliform (catlike)). I've found tooth structure to be one way to distinguish that order, since they often have distinct fangs with incisors, a slight gap, and then molars. When I worked as an interpretor at a zoo, I referred to species in that order as Carnivorans instead of Carnivores because it creates a distinction. For example, the Trash Panda is a Carnivoran, but like the fox, they will eat anything that can remotely be seen as food, though percentage wise they tend to have more plant matter in their natural diet than foxes. TL;DR: While it's not official that I'm aware of, Carnivoran is animals from Carnivora, Carnivore is meat eating. Update: Bat Ear Fox's teeth have hauntingly human molars. Do note while they still fit the dentition definition of most Carnivorans with long canines, incisors, and a gap before molars, the Bat Ears clearly chew their food more than most Carnivorans.

The Tibetan Fox looks like he's either utterly unhappy to the point of not giving a damn anymore or disgusted by having plebeians around it. Edit: Also Happy Birthday.

I had never even heard of bat-eared foxes until now, much less seen them :0 I've been lucky enough to see arctic fox kits though! We had to sit completely silent for hours behind some rocks on a ridge, looking down through binoculars at their hole in the valley, and finally they came out to play! Unfortunately, global warming is doing a number on them though :/ not only because red foxes creep further north as it gets warmer, but also because the arctic foxes will still turn white every winter even though it might not snow at all in their area anymore, and suddenly they're extremely exposed...

12:52 THERE ARE FOXES WITH DROOP EARS AND CURLED TAILS !?

Happy Birthday 🎂! Damn, foxes and coyotes really put all their stats into "Adapt or Die." and just casually forgot the die part.

I’ve only seen a gray fox once in my life, but I was extremely lucky. It was in El Sobrante in my grandmother’s old neighborhood, & when I was walking my dog, the fox came out of the bushes for a mere two seconds before darting back in. It was one of the greatest wildlife encounters in my life. 😊

Happy birthday! So enjoy your channel and I appreciate all the hard work you put into it ❤ Thanks

We always loved foxes. We had a red fox that would walk out into the yard in the morning and watch us eat breakfast because our dining room had tall windows. I'm pretty sure the fox used this to know when we left so that he could poke around the house to eat whatever there was around while nobody was home.

I live in Israel. When the lockdown happened, foxes were freakin' EVERYWHERE! I had no idea so many of them were in my city alone. I've seen a few when I would walk my dog late at night, but this was crazy. We also have jackals (seen often) and wolves (rare and highly endangered), but man, these foxes had no shame in their game.

Happy Birthday! Thank you for reminding us how adorable foxes are. 🦊😍

“And arguably; no other country has foxxed around and found out other than Australia.” (2:14) I screamed. (I am an Australian, I love foxes.)

You zguys don’t understand how much comfort I get from this man, he reminds me of an older brother..💀

Happy birthday❤ my husband got a job doing tours for Yellowstone and the surrounding areas of Jackson, WY and he’s been deep diving into all the information he can find about the native plants and animals, as well as the geography of the area. One day I showed him your video of the wolves who almost became extinct in Yellowstone, as well as the one featuring the team work with the ravens and wolves. He loved it and he now retells the stories to the visitors, and they love it as well. I appreciate the time and effort you take to produce these videos and I especially love the terms you creatively come up with. Anyway, happy birthday and I can’t wait to see more of your content in the future!

You did a really, really good job on this videos. The little one liners were dope.

I just learned more about Foxes, than I ever wanted to know and I as so grateful ! Thank you. Also Happy Birthday 🎂🎉🎁🎊🎈

Happy belated, my guy! Hope your birthday was a good one! Also, SaveAFox is a nice channel to see shenanigans at a fox sanctuary. I'll always adore Finnegan, the rascal! 🥰

5:40 "this MARSHMALLOW better leave me alone..."

As a brit, I grew up in the country, I even loved near woods, saw zero fox's, as an adult moved into towns, see them all the time. We had a young fox come ams play, yes play with the neighbourhood cats, thar was intil my momma car and her 1 year old girls decided to go special ops on him, never saw him again 😢 I do love fox's, Arctic fox's are the prettiest. OMG, The Fenix fox 😍😍😍 The Tibenham Fox is my spiritual animal 😂😂😂😂😂. Im addicted to watchimg you shows, love them ❤️

Im very happy you made a video on Foxes, they are my favorite (especially arctic foxes) animals and i learned some stuff i didnt know beforehand

I absolutely love how witty everything he says is. He keeps me rolling and I repeat his one liners to everyone that will listen to an old woman trying to educate them on animals. Wish I could just channel him.

10:23 WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE BAD TAXIDERMY 😭 Also, Happy Birthday 🎉

Dude. Your delivery is so good, this is the first time I backed up just to hear the ad again. You're an effin prodigy.

These two cat lovers enjoyed this piece thanx for your time and energy used to make it😍🤗