Maybe a daft question... are foxes Canibals??

[blackfox 9]

As the title says - Are foxes canibalistic?

 

 

Im saying this cause i shot a fox about 3 weeks or so ago and chucked it in the hedge... took the dog out for a walk today and saw that the remains had been pulled out of the hedge about 20 ft into the field and was stripped bare no skin left only the tail had hair on

 

Maybe the snow is getting too much or is this normal?

 

 

Cheers

[danw 1,748]

Yes fella they are meat is meat especially when it is this cold we don't pick up the dead foxes here they are left where they fall it is not long before the crows and buzzards are on them.

[Catcher 1 639]

As the title says - Are foxes canibalistic?

 

 

Im saying this cause i shot a fox about 3 weeks or so ago and chucked it in the hedge... took the dog out for a walk today and saw that the remains had been pulled out of the hedge about 20 ft into the field and was stripped bare no skin left only the tail had hair on

 

Maybe the snow is getting too much or is this normal?

 

 

Cheers

 

 

Your right mate Foxes depending on food can become cannibalistic

[Nik_B 3,790]

Might have been a band of really angry sheep getting their revenge

[blackfox 9]

Might have been a band of really angry sheep getting their revenge

 

 

Lol yeah, i like the thought of that maybe a beatles tribute band...

Edited January 11, 2010 by blackfox

[Deker 3,478]

In my experience when food is plentiful they will tend to leave their own, but when needs must they have no problem!

[RicW 67]

Define cannibalism. Foxes are very unlikely to kill other foxes but if they come across a stiffie - it's breakfast.

[watchman 256]

im sure badgers would eat their fill from a carcass as well

[blackfox 9]

Define cannibalism. Foxes are very unlikely to kill other foxes but if they come across a stiffie - it's breakfast.

 

 

LOL, you know... reading this one could make a very rude comment here... to compare that statement as acting like a lady.....

[RicW 67]

Define cannibalism. Foxes are very unlikely to kill other foxes but if they come across a stiffie - it's breakfast.

 

 

LOL, you know... reading this one could make a very rude comment here... to compare that statement as acting like a lady.....

 

Acting like a lady? You? No comment.

[blackfox 9]

Define cannibalism. Foxes are very unlikely to kill other foxes but if they come across a stiffie - it's breakfast.

 

 

LOL, you know... reading this one could make a very rude comment here... to compare that statement as acting like a lady.....

 

Acting like a lady? You? No comment.

 

 

No im not talking about myself!!! Ha ha ha

[dicehorn 38]

Couple of years ago in late spring, as I came along the road at night, I could not help but run over a fox cub - there were 2 others in the road at the time. As I continued I suddenly thought although I felt the bumps of driving over one, that I should turn around and go back to make sure I had not damaged another cub. When I go there the two other cubs were tucking into their very dead mate.

 

Picked up the dead cub and chucked it well onto the grass verge before the next car came along and claimed the other two.

[RicW 67]

Just you wait. If my plans work out then my 204 will outshoot your's any day. Push your luck and I'll build a 5mm/35 SMc.

[stubby 175]

thats weird, as shot urban foxes that have been bagged awaiting me to take to the works incinarator are never clawed open by other urban foxes on other rubbish sacks,

[RicW 67]

I read a few days ago that polar bears are becoming fully cannibalistic, with males killing and eating cubs - even their own. This is due the shrinkage of the ice-cap reducing the numbers of seals, the bears' normal prey.

Obviously not a viable long-term policy.