Drawing of two red foxes in a snowy field
Date published 1920
Source Encyclopedia Americana, 1920, Vol. 11, between p. 564 and 565.
Author W. Kuhnert (Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865 – 1926))
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Americana_Fox_-_Red_Fox.jpg

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes), largest of the true foxes, has the greatest geographic range of all members of the Carnivora family, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia. Vulpes vulpes females are called vixens, and young cubs, pups, or kits. The scientific term vulpes derives from the Latin word for fox.