Spare our wily neighbour

• Autores: Stephen Harris
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2905, 2013, pág. 26
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Harris talks about the growing problem of urban foxes in UK. Fortunately, cases of foxes biting children are very rare, but whenever they happen the media is whipped into a frenzy and such language dominates the coverage. Feeding this frenzy may be good for a politician's image, but it sidesteps the facts. Then there are the experts who suddenly appear whenever fox bites hit the headlines, claiming that urban foxes are increasing, as are attacks on children. Moreover, people who call for a fox cull also forget or ignore the fact that it has been tried before, and has failed. Foxes started colonizing cities in the 1930s, when a house-building boom and suburban expansion created an ideal habitat of lower-density housing with bigger gardens.