Suburban and urban areas are commonly inhabited by red foxes. Males are slightly heavier than females.
Males are generally larger than females.
Mice, voles, woodchucks, rabbits, chipmunks, fruits, insects, birds and eggs, carrion, garbage, amphibians, and reptiles. Red foxes have an elongated snout, pointed ears and a long, bushy tail which is carried horizontally. Other color phases are uncommon but include silver, black and a cross, always with a white-tipped tail and dark feet. The red fox occurs over most of North America from Baffin Island, Canada, and Alaska to the southern United States, except for coastal western Canada, Oregon and California, the great plains, the southwestern desert and the extreme southeastern United States. Foxes breed from January through March and, after an average gestation period of 51 to 53 days, give birth to a litter averaging four or five pups.