Editing Fox (section)

===Urban settings===
{{see also|Red fox#Urban red foxes}}
Foxes are among the comparatively few mammals which have been able to adapt themselves to a certain degree to living in urban (mostly suburban) human environments. Their omnivorous diet allows them to survive on discarded [[food waste]], and their skittish and often nocturnal nature means that they are often able to avoid detection, despite their larger size.

Urban foxes have been identified as threats to cats and small dogs, and for this reason there is often pressure to exclude them from these environments.<ref name="Adams2012">{{cite book|author=Clark E. Adams|title=Urban Wildlife Management, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0X7CAAAQBAJ|date=15 June 2012|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4665-2127-8|page=168|access-date=24 September 2018|archive-date=29 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129230635/https://books.google.com/books?id=D0X7CAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[San Joaquin kit fox]] is a highly endangered species that has, ironically, become adapted to urban living in the [[San Joaquin Valley]] and [[Salinas Valley]] of southern California. Its diet includes mice, ground squirrels, rabbits, hares, bird eggs, and insects, and it has claimed habitats in open areas, golf courses, drainage basins, and school grounds.<ref name="Adams2012"/>

Though rare, bites by foxes have been reported; in 2018, a woman in [[Clapham|Clapham, London]] was bitten on the arm by a fox after she had left the door to her flat open.<ref name="EveningStandard2018">{{cite news |last1=Dunne |first1=John |last2=Moore-Bridger |first2=Benedict |last3=Powell |first3=Tom |title=Woman mauled in bed by fox in Clapham flat: I'm traumatised and feared I would contract rabies |newspaper=[[Evening Standard]] |location=London |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/woman-mauled-in-bed-by-fox-im-traumatised-and-fear-i-would-contract-rabies-a3868586.html |date=2018-06-21 |access-date=2018-06-22 |archive-date=2018-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622171852/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/woman-mauled-in-bed-by-fox-im-traumatised-and-fear-i-would-contract-rabies-a3868586.html |url-status=live }}</ref>