SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Zoo Miami announced in a news release that ‘Swift,’ a red fox who was adored at the zoo as an animal ambassador over six years, passed away on Thursday.

That distinguishes the species from the slightly larger, non-native red fox (which settlers near Waco introduced for hunting in the 1890s) and two smaller species: the swift fox, found in the ...

The most common and abundant of the fox species, the red fox is found across the entire northern hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to North Africa to Eurasia. ... A Prairie-dwelling canid about the ...