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Anyone know what a fox is trying to say when it does that screeching thing?
I'm guessing 'that screeching thing' sounds like a baby being murdered?
If so, that's a vixen's scream, which means "I'm ready to copulate". It's designed to travel far and wide to the local dog foxes and is heard late winter/early spring.
We never hear it here in Hackney, but we have a local dog fox which has plaintively repeated his call of 'hup hup hup' (kind of like a bark, kinda not) for years. This can be either searching for a mate or a territory marking noise, but we suspect the former given that we've never heard a vixen's scream.
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Oliver Schick
Anyone know what a fox is trying to say when it does that screeching thing? We cannot agree in the office some people think its 'fuck me' others think its 'fuck off' anyone help us clear things up.