COAL VALLEY, Ill. — On Aug. 20, Niabi Zoo welcomed four new Fennec fox cubs, adding to one of the country's most successful breeding programs for the animals. The new cubs had a gender reveal party in ...

With the endangered island fox now thriving again on the Channel Islands, a captive breeding program is no longer needed and the remaining breeding facility, on Santa Rosa Island, will be shut down.

The foxes are believed to be the first born at any European zoo so far this year.

Wide-eyed and bewildered, a tiny, house cat-sized island fox was reluctant to flee from its cage for the first time into the wilds of windswept Santa Rosa Island. The captive-bred predator remained ...

When foxes form a pair, the bond usually lasts beyond just a single breeding season. They raise young together, share a territory, and rely on each other to survive. But things tend to change ...