All types of foxes and where to see them in the wild

The demure Arctic fox is much tougher than it looks, also known as the polar fox, it lives in the Arctic region of the northern hemisphere.

Arctic fox

Red fox

The Red fox is the largest of the true foxes and the most familiar fox species across the northern hemisphere.

Swift fox

Smaller than a domestic cat, the Swift fox is one of the smallest foxes in the world. It is found in the western grasslands of North America.

Kit fox

The Kit fox is a desert-adapted species that inhabits arid regions of southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico.

Corsac fox

The Corsac fox is a medium-sized fox from Central Asia found in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and northern parts of Iran.

Cape fox

It is the only true fox in Africa that occurs south of the equator.

Pale fox

The Pale fox is distributed across a narrow band of semi-arid Sahel region of the African continent the transition zone between the dunes of the Sahara desert and the sub-Saharan savannas.