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Thursday, 4 April 2024

8 Mice or 6 Eggs?

 

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Urban foxes primarily scavenge for food, but when they hunt it is usually for birds or small mammals such as rats and mice, helping to keep rodent numbers under control

To give this some context, an adult mouse would provide a fox with about 60 kcal, while a large chicken egg would offer about 84 kcal – thus, a single fox would need about eight mice or six eggs per day.

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