Sound on! It's noisy fox season. 🔊 January is fox mating season, so you may hear the (sometimes concerning!) sound of a fox crying in the night, their most startling call sounds a lot like a person screaming, it is however only a female fox (or ‘vixen’) letting a male (or ‘dog’) fox know that she is ready to mate! 😱 Did you know? Foxes have a repertoire of around 28 different, subtle sounds that they use to communicate with each other. As well as their well-known triple box ('hup-hup-hup’), ma

'What does the fox say?' - not just a song, but a question that many people have had over the years. With the winter breeding season now here, you may well have heard it yourself without realising! With somewhere between 12 and 20 different vocalisations (depending on definition), foxes have quite a wide vocabulary. With certain calls sounding a little like human screams, some people mistake courting foxes for humans in need of help and both the police and wildlife rescues are flooded with calls