Abstract
Very many investigations have been made into the diet of the red fox. They all have very different results. This is caused on the one hand by the differing methods, which I shall deal with later on, and on the other by the often very different ecological conditions in the examined biotopes. The fox is able to adapt to considerably different living conditions. According to Heptner and Naumov (1974) it has the greatest geographic and individual versatility of all carnivores, for example it is very much greater than that of the wolf which does not have a smaller range of habitat. General details concerning the diet of the red fox are misleading as they make standards which are only applicable in limited areas.
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Witt, H. (1980). The Diet of the Red Fox. In: Zimen, E. (eds) The Red Fox. Biogeographica. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-5592-4_6
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