{"id":343984,"date":"2026-03-13T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/343984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T09:43:07","slug":"red-fox-stows-away-on-ship-from-britain-to-new-york-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/343984\/","title":{"rendered":"Red fox stows away on ship from Britain to New York port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A red fox that managed to slip onto a US-bound ship in Britain was discovered by customs officers in the Port of New York, a zoo in the city has said.<\/p>\n<p>The animal that zookeepers believe to be around two years old somehow boarded a vessel in Southampton, England, and was detected on arrival at the Port of New York and New Jersey, the Bronx Zoo said.<\/p>\n<p>Once veterinarians give the 11-pound male fox a clean bill of health, zookeepers said they would be looking for a long-term home for the animal, which is said to be doing well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bronx Zoo regularly works with officials to help rescue wildlife that is illegally trafficked through nearby ports and airports,&#8221; the zoo said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 01: A fox is seen around at 10 Downing Street in London, United Kingdom on July 01, 2025. (Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim\/Anadolu via Getty Images)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/00240c51-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nA fox is seen around at 10 Downing Street in London<\/p>\n<p>Red foxes are one of the most prevalent carnivorous mammals globally and are found in Europe, Asia and North America as well as in parts of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>There are tens of thousands of urban foxes in Britain, according to academic research, and Britain has some of the highest-density fox populations in the world.<\/p>\n<p>They have been a part of the city landscape since the 1930s, when urban sprawl began to encroach on their rural territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A red fox that managed to slip onto a US-bound ship in Britain was discovered by customs officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-343984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}