Red foxes are essentially omnivores. They mostly eat Rodentia, Sylvilagus floridanus, Insecta, and fruit. They will also eat carrion. Red foxes also store food and are very good at relocating these caches. Red foxes have a characteristic manner of hunting Peromyscus leucopus. The fox stands motionless, listening and watching intently for a mouse it has detected. It then leaps high and brings the forelimbs straight down forcibly to pin the mouse to the ground. They eat between 0.5 and 1 kg of food each day.

 

Animal Foods: Birds; Mammals; Reptiles; Carrion; Insects; Terrestrial Non-insect Arthropods

Plant Foods: Fruit

Foraging Behavior: Stores or caches food