![]() That bark sequence is thought to be an identification system studies indicate that foxes can tell each other apart by this call. It’s commonly mistaken for an owl hooting. The barks are a sort of ow-wow-wow-wow, but very high-pitched, almost yippy. All fox vocalizations are higher-pitched than dog vocalizations, partly because foxes are much smaller. The most commonly heard red fox vocalizations are a quick series of barks, and a scream-y variation on a howl. In vocalizations, too, foxes aren’t entirely like dogs. ![]() Foxes are canids, like dogs and wolves, but are not closely related to either in fact, they hunt more like cats, with a low-to-the-ground stalking posture, and bite hard with sharp, thin teeth to kill prey (dogs and wolves tend to have duller, larger teeth and use a “clamp and shake” method to kill). The red fox, which is the most common species of fox worldwide (and almost certainly the fox variety Ylvis is talking about there are only about 120 arctic foxes left in Norway), is highly vocal. Are foxes dogs? They’re certainly related-but their vocalizations aren’t quite as varied. It’s simple to reduce, say, a dog’s vocalizations to “bark,” but as any owner knows, dogs can yelp, whine, howl, growl, and make all kinds of other sounds. All species of fox have a pretty wide variety of vocalizations, just as dogs and cats do. Here in the States, we have a few others, like the gray fox and the kit fox. In Norway, where Ylvis is from, there are two species of fox: the Arctic fox ( Vulpes lagopus) and the red fox ( Vulpes vulpes).
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