Red Fox
There’s an amazing Red Fox which spends its time in the gardens here in Virginia.
I’m surprised to see one here, but Red Foxes live across the whole of the Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia.
That’s an absolutely enormous range. Wherever they live, they are amazing animals to be close to.
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