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RSPB Spotlight: Foxes
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RSPB Spotlight: Foxes

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Hero or villain? Few animals divide opinion like the Red Fox. This most successful of the world's wild canids has lived alongside people from time immemorial. Celebrated by some for its resourcefulness and lush pelt, reviled by others for plundering chicken runs and overturning bins, it has worked its way deep into Western. Behind the folklore and tabloid headlines, however, lies a remarkable natural history success story.


In Spotlight: Foxes Mike Unwin explores how the Red Fox's versatility has allowed it to thrive across the northern hemisphere, from desert and mountain to farmland and urban jungle. This informative ebook covers all aspects of the Red Fox biology and lifestyle, including hunting and caching food, defending a territory, raising a litter and understanding the secrets of its complex vocalisations and body language. Finally, he examines the complex, often troubled relationship that the Fox has enjoyed and both endured with humankind, and suggests what the future might hold.


The new Spotlight series introduces readers to the lives and behaviours of our favourite animals with eye-catching, colour photography and informative expert text.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781472912107
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatEPUB
Format noteDRM Adobe
PublisherBloomsbury UK
Publishing date18/06/2015
Edition1. Auflage
LanguageEnglish
File size105131 Kbytes
Article no.10560380
CatalogsVC
Data source no.3264367
Product groupBU426
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