Red fox Temporal range: Mid-Pleistocene–Recent
A red fox, photographed at the British Wildlife Centre Surrey
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Canidae
Tribe:	Vulpini
Genus:	Vulpes
Binomial name
Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution of the red fox. Basically, they are all over the northern hemisphere

A red fox sitting

European red fox

Vulpes vulpes- skull

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is a mammal of the order Carnivora. It is the biggest and most well-known species of fox. Red foxes are sometimes hunted for sport, or killed as pests or carriers of rabies.