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Are there foxes in eastern Asia?

This beautiful little canid is so adaptable, we might meet one on Mars when we first set foot on that Red Planet.

Well, a little hyperbole never hurts. Anyway, there are red foxes in Asia, and like this one in Japan, they must use their wits to survive —

You might outwit the eagles, Reynard, but you’ll never escape David Attenborough.

West of Japan some 7,800 miles by road and ferry, but much farther by paw, a red fox in Eurasia’s Carpathian Mountains uses a strategy that just wasn’t an option out on the ice:

Returning to the east, Ecology Asia notes that red foxes can be found down into the northern parts of Southeast Asia, with a subspecies – Vulpes vulpes hoole, the South China fox — in parts of Vietnam, but unfortunately I couldn’t come across any more videos.

Here are some online text resources instead:

• Red fox numbers in northeastern China reportedly are rising.
• National Geographic’s Photo of the Day — foxes in Hokkaido — and someone’s impression of the kita kitsune (accuracy not checked by me):

  Krispy Kreme is in this, too.

• A crime wave broken up, causing international headlines.
• Red foxes are making a comeback in South Korea, too.

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Some lagniappe — Meanwhile, in New Jersey…

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Featured image: Miki Yoshihito, CC BY 2.0.

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