Foxes that live in forest or wilderness areas have little to fear from people. These foxes are more active during the day. The female is more active during the day while she is feeding her pups. The need to find food forces her to spend longer periods hunting. Sometimes she hunts well into the day or starts hunting earlier in the evening.
Foxes are also more active during the mating season.
Males move about searching for a suitable territory and travel more freely during the day than they do at other times. For the female fox the den is the centre of her home range for most of the year. She stays in the den in the daytime and bears her young there. She must stay near the den for as long as the pups use it. As the pups get older, she prefers to find a resting spot at a distance from the den to avoid the pups' constant attention.