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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Stoat, Wild boar, Red Fox, European Badger, Red Deer, Eurasian Beaver, Least Weasel, European Polecat, Eastern gray squirrel, Red Squirrel, European Rabbit, Ringed seal, Harbor seal, Harp Seal, Edible dormouse, European Water Vole, European Otter, Roe Deer, Fallow Deer, List of mammals of Great Britain, Wood mouse, Hazel Dormouse, Grey Seal, Common Shrew, Common Vole, Harvest Mouse, Lesser Noctule, European Pine Marten, Bearded seal, Greater mouse-eared bat, Mountain Hare, Nathusius's Pipistrelle, Lesser horseshoe bat, Eurasian Pygmy Shrew, Barbastelle, European Wildcat, Particoloured bat, Bechstein's Bat, Daubenton's Bat, European Mole, Bank Vole, Hooded Seal, Wild goat, Brown long-eared bat, Common Noctule, Whiskered bat, Eurasian Water Shrew, Brandt's Bat, Soprano Pipistrelle, Common Pipistrelle, Natterer's bat, Grey long-eared bat, Field Vole, Orkney vole, Yellow-necked Mouse, Serotine bat, St Kilda House Mouse, Northern Bat, St Kilda Field Mouse, Skomer Vole. Excerpt: The Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes, as well as being the most geographically spread member of the Carnivora, being distributed across the entire northern hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, Central America, and the steppes of Asia. Its range has increased alongside human expansion, having been introduced to Australia, where it is considered harmful to native mammal and bird populations. Because of these factors, it is listed as Least Concern for extinction by the IUCN. It is listed among the "world's 100 worst invasive species." The red fox originated from smaller-sized ancestors from Eurasia during the Middle Villafranchian period, and colonised North America shortly after the Wisconsian glaciation. Among the true foxes, the red fox represents a more progressive form in the direction of carnivory. Apart fr...
