🦊Why do foxes hide (cache) their food? Our friendly urban #fox comes for dinner & 1000 SUBSCRIBERS.

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Today's video examines why foxes like to hide (cache) their food and we see one evening when she comes to the door asking to be fed and then eats what she can and hides the rest for possible future consumption. 

Ultimately, foxes aren’t fortune-tellers; they cannot see into the future and know whether they’ll hunt successfully tomorrow. Consequently, foxes hedge their bets. Seldom will they pass up an opportunity to hunt and if hunger doesn’t drive them to eat the prize straight away the logical response is to put it somewhere safe for later, when pickings may be slim. It’s no different from us going to the supermarket once a week to stock up with food.

In instances where a fox’s predatory instinct is over-stimulated, such as the oft-cited fox in the chicken coop example, caching helps make the most of the valuable resource of dead birds, if the fox gets the opportunity to remove them.

https://www.wildlifeonline.me.uk/animals/article/red-fox-diet-killing-to-excess-caching

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Title: Acoustic Folk Instrumental by Hyde - Free Instrumentals
Genre and Mood: Country & Folk + Calm

London is the ultimate urban landscape when we look out of the window or take a walk down the street, these views can appear to be devoid of any natural life, with everything being artificial and man-made. But when we look again, with the right eyes, we can see that nature is actually here in abundance. and that includes one of nature's great survivors and adapters the urban #fox.

Here at Ajax the Friendly Urban Fox we are proud to support The Fox Project which is a registered charity dedicated to the Red Fox.

https://foxproject.org.uk/
Established in 1991 as a specialist Wildlife Information Bureau, Fox Deterrence Consultancy, it has incorporated a Wildlife Hospital since 1993 which, today, admits and treats over 1000 foxes per year, including 250 cubs. It appears regularly on TV, radio and other media, both in the UK and internationally, has received awards from RSPCA, International Fund for Animal Welfare, media and TV and is honoured to have Chris Packham and Anneka Svenska as Patrons.