Sentences with phrase «urban foxes»

White believes his figures are accurate because most groups of urban foxes have clearly defined territories marked out by well - lit roads, walls or fences, making it easy for the trackers to see them crossing between territories.

In fact, there is far more published data on urban foxes in the UK than on foxes anywhere else in the world.

[19] Lubaina Himid, ed., The Thin Black Line (Hebden Bridge: Urban Fox Press, 1985), exhibition catalogue.

Defra Questions sees MPs discussing putting Chris Huhne out of a job, how to deal with urban foxes and whether the state should buy British

Equally frustrating, whenever fox bites sporadically hit the headlines, is the number of experts that suddenly appear claiming that urban fox numbers are increasing, as are attacks on children.

With all this misinformation, it may seem surprising to hear that we actually know more about urban foxes in the UK than rural foxes.

But there is no evidence that urban foxes generally are getting bigger or bolder, or pose more of a risk to people.

Harris and Smith relied on Canadian estimates of how often urban foxes came into contact with each other.

Britain's emergency plans for an outbreak of rabies, a potential threat with the opening of the Channel Tunnel, are based on inaccurate estimates of how fast the disease is likely to spread among urban foxes.

Appalling Problem... In some areas, stray cats and kittens are everywhere and, rather like the large urban fox population, very few of them are fed, so their numbers are similarly controlled by disease, starvation and road accidents.

He was even more surprised when, in spite of the fact that he got his start snapping foxes and badgers, and publicized his search for urban foxes on BBC and in The Guardian, no fox could be found in England's capital.

So it was almost inevitable that when a baby in Bromley in the suburbs of south - east London was bitten by a fox last week, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, demanded that the city's many borough councils tackle the «growing problem» of urban foxes, which he called a «pest and a menace».

This was published by the imprint she founded, Urban Fox Press, «a revolutionary new press for the more radical 90s».

So called «liminal animals» with whom we have limited but important interactions — urban foxes and birds, dormice reliant on hedgerows for their ecological niche, stray cats and the like — occupy a complex middle ground.

The MP for the distinctly unrural Fulham and Chelsea, Greg Hands, asked about the extermination of urban foxes, to which the minister, James Paice, replied that «While the extermination of urban foxes, or indeed rural ones, is neither desirable nor possible, problem foxes do need to be controlled.

Trouble is, that wee, irresistible plant in the garden centre grows soon into an unwieldy monster under which the urban fox has made its den.

«Urban foxes have a small range and it's easy to walk along roads and track them,» says White.

Urban foxes are much more common in Britain than in other European countries.

David MacDonald of the department of zoology at the University of Oxford has found that urban foxes are extremely sociable.

Interestingly, users give their «muddy - townie ratio», so you can rate yourself as 70 % countryphile, 30 % urban fox.

The hotel's designers — with the help of one urban fox — succeeded in making the Hilton London Bankside a very guest friendly hotel.

Our imagery includes cats, urban foxes, and birds, set against a background tall buildings, overgrown lots, and elevated subways riding on twisted trestles.