Are foxes smart?

Answers to common questions about foxes: Are pets safe from foxes? Is it okay to feed a fox? Foxes and rabies. How smart are foxes? How to keep foxes out of a yard. Do foxes attack people? Foxes as pets. What to do about injured or orphaned foxes. read more

People use the phrase “wily like a fox” or “sly as a fox” for a reason. Foxes are very smart in ways that matter: finding food, surviving in weather extremes, outwitting predators, protecting their young. They’re smarter than most, but not all, dog breeds. read more

Some are very smart, others, not so much. The red fox is known to be very clever, so it is comparably smarter then some breeds of dogs, however a border collie, is smarter than a red fox. read more

(Pigs and sheep are only prey, but both are smart, the pig especially so.) The myths and stories about their cunning are based on truth. Foxes are smaller than both coyotes and wolves, and they don’t even compare to bears. Badgers are also stronger, leaving foxes as the weakest carnivore where they live. read more

People use the phrase “wily like a fox” or “sly as a fox” for a reason. Foxes are very smart in ways that matter: finding food, surviving in weather extremes, outwitting predators, protecting their young. read more

When it comes to hunting, or guts, or speed, or adaptability, or independence (tell me if I left anything) foxes are ahead of coyotes and wolves. Coyotes and wolves lead foxes in terms of being bigger and hunting even bigger animals. But not to forget, both wolves and coyotes are pack hunters. And foxes, well, the smart works alone and eats alone. read more