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Video shows the first red fox known to fish for food

Foxes and wolves are the only canids known to fish

photo of a red fox licking its lips

Red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) have now joined the group of land mammals known to fish.

Picture by Tambako the Jaguar/Moment/Getty Images Plus

By Freda Kreier

- More than 2 years ago

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The fox froze. Inches from his paws, frenzied, spawning carp writhed in the shallow water along a reservoir’s shore.