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Irish Fox Endangered Species?

  • 22-04-2006 7:14pm
    #1
    Banphrionsa
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    Is the Irish Fox an endangered species? Anyone know?


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  • #2
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    well for an endangered Species, i see plenty of them in the very early morning....



    they seem to like my bins


  • #3
    Scraggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭Scraggs


    Banphrionsa wrote:
    Is the Irish Fox an endangered species? Anyone know?
    You accidently killed one didnt you:D


  • #4
    Ri_Nollaig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭Ri_Nollaig


    Banphrionsa wrote:
    Is the Irish Fox an endangered species? Anyone know?
    i would seriously doubt it, if anything their numbers have probably increased over the past few years. no facts to back that up, its just ive seen them more often


  • #5
    The_Minister
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    Doubtful, but I don't think they're that plentiful though.


  • #6
    Banphrionsa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭Banphrionsa


    Scraggs wrote:
    You accidently killed one didnt you:D

    Nope. Got a pet one.


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  • #7
    Blowfish
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    Banphrionsa wrote:
    Is the Irish Fox an endangered species? Anyone know?
    Dunno, maybe you should breed your pet one though.


  • #8
    Banphrionsa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭Banphrionsa


    Blowfish wrote:
    Dunno, maybe you should breed your pet one though.

    Yes, I have thought about this a lot lately.


  • #9
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    I'd suspect not, they have succesfully adapted to an urban environment. They may be much rarer in the countryside than they used to be, but they flourish in cities. It is estimated that in a british city, you are on average never more than 5 metres from fox.* I'd imagine that it's pretty similar in Ireland.


    *And never more than one metre from a rat.


  • #10
    Umiq88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Umiq88


    plenty of foxes around the place they dont have any natural predators really so the only thing that keeps the numbers down is us humans who get rid of 100's of them every year


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