Editing Fox (section)

===Behaviour===
[[File:Alopex lagopus coiled up in snow.jpg|right|thumb|[[Arctic fox]] curled up in snow]]
[[File:Rödräv - (Vulpes vulpes) - Världens ände - Ystad-2023.jpg|thumb|Two young foxes play in the snow in southern [[Sweden]].]]
In the wild, the typical lifespan of a fox is one to three years, although individuals may live up to ten years. Unlike many canids, foxes are not always pack animals. Typically, they live in small family groups, but some (such as [[Arctic fox]]es) are known to be solitary.<ref name=Lloyd1980 /><ref name=Burrows />

Foxes are [[omnivore]]s.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fedriani |first=J.M. |author2=T. K. Fuller |author3=R. M. Sauvajot |author4=E. C. York |date=2000-07-05 |title=Competition and intraguild predation among three sympatric carnivores |journal=Oecologia |volume=125 |pages=258–270 |url=http://www.ebd.csic.es/cani/public_html/Oecologia_00.pdf |doi=10.1007/s004420000448 |issue=2 |pmid=24595837 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006040228/http://www.ebd.csic.es/cani/public_html/Oecologia_00.pdf |archive-date=2011-10-06 |hdl=10261/54628 |bibcode=2000Oecol.125..258F |s2cid=24289407 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Vulpes_vulpes.html | last=Fox | first=David L. | title=Vulpes vulpes (red fox) | work=Animal Diversity Web | publisher=University of Michigan Museum of Zoology | year=2007 | access-date=2009-08-30 | archive-date=2019-01-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106113334/https://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Vulpes_vulpes.html%20 | url-status=live }}</ref> Their diet is made up primarily of [[invertebrate]]s such as insects and small [[vertebrate]]s such as reptiles and birds. They may also eat eggs and vegetation. Many species are generalist predators, but some (such as the [[crab-eating fox]]) have more specialized diets. Most species of fox consume around {{convert|1|kg|lb|abbr=on}} of food every day. Foxes [[Hoarding (animal behavior)|cache]] excess food, burying it for later consumption, usually under leaves, snow, or soil.<ref name=Burrows /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Macdonald|first1=David W.|title=Food Caching by Red Foxes and Some Other Carnivores|journal=Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie|date=26 April 2010|volume=42|issue=2|pages=170–185|doi=10.1111/j.1439-0310.1976.tb00963.x|pmid=1007654}}<!--|access-date=2 October 2014--></ref> While hunting, foxes tend to use a particular pouncing technique, such that they crouch down to [[camouflage]] themselves in the terrain and then use their hind legs to leap up with great force and land on top of their chosen prey.<ref name=Lloyd1980 /> Using their pronounced canine teeth, they can then grip the prey's neck and shake it until it is dead or can be readily disemboweled.<ref name=Lloyd1980 />

The [[gray fox]] is one of only two canine species known to regularly climb trees; the other is the [[raccoon dog]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P85eCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT258|title=Free Ranging Dogs – Stray, Feral or Wild?|last=Lavigne|first=Guillaume de|date=2015-03-19|publisher=Lulu Press, Inc|isbn=9781326219529|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>