Bushy tails! Stinky butts! Faces so cute you weep! Let’s talk foxes – specifically the little gray ones you never knew you loved. Fox behavioral expert, researcher, conservationist, author of “The Road to Fox Hollow” and Urocyonologist Bill Leikam chats about fuzzy foxes, baby names, parental strategies, where they live, what they eat, advice for potential pet owners, how to observe foxes, how tiny foxes wound up on islands, which foxes need conservation, Silicon Valley foxes, and why a fox on the couch is worth 1000 in the bush. Also: what do they smell like? And what do they say?

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Buy Bill’s book: The Road to Fox Hollow

A donation went to the Urban Wildlife Research Project

Watch the documentary: The Foxes, my Professors: Bill Leikam and the Gray Foxes of Silicon Valley

Links to things we discussed:

Channel Island Fox

Dr. Ben Sacks at UC Davis

So you want a pet fox? How to fox proof your house.

Canine Distemper Virus Infection in the Free-Living Wild Canines, the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) and Jackal (Canis aureus moreoticus), in Croatia

Multiple paternity and kinship in the gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)

The precipitous decline of a gray fox population

One Palo Alto man’s quest to protect the baylands’ gray fox