Question -- One time I read that the red fox in the USA are decendents of fox brought here by early British settlers. That is, they were not native. Over the years I've read a large number of articles about red fox and looked through a number of animal books and if that is true, it does not seem to be common knowledge here. What is the true story?

I also have heared that red foxes in North America are not indigenous but I don't now if that is true or just legond.
The foxes that I have shot in Europe have looked exactly like the onesI have shot in the US. I also know for sure that the foxes I have hunted on Kodiak island came from the first Russian settelers to the island.

Guess I should have done this before my earlier post.
Here's a quote from a googel search about the subject.

"The red fox originated from smaller-sized ancestors from Eurasia during the Middle Villafranchian period,[2] and colonised North America shortly after the Wisconsian glaciation."

This would indicate to me that they found there own way over during the ice age. Now we know who really discovered America.

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Now we know who really discovered America.