{"id":161509,"date":"2026-03-12T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161509\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:29:35","slug":"look-red-fox-stows-away-on-cargo-ship-from-england-to-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161509\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Red fox stows away on cargo ship from England to United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A red fox is being cared for at the Bronx Zoo after stowing away on a cargo ship from England. Photo courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society<\/p>\n<p>March 12 (UPI) &#8212; A red fox stowed away on a cargo ship that departed Southampton, England, and was found by customs officers at the Port of New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildlife Conservation Society, which operates the Bronx Zoo in New York, said U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.wcs.org\/News-Releases\/articleType\/ArticleView\/articleId\/25965\/WCSs-Bronx-Zoo-Assists-in-Rescue-and-Care-of-Stowaway-Red-Fox-Found-at-Port-of-New-York-and-New-Jersey.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discovered the approximately<\/a> 2-year-old male fox hiding among the ship&#8217;s cargo when it arrived at the Port Authority.\n<\/p>\n<p>The 11-pound fox was brought to the Bronx Zoo on Feb. 19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fox is currently in the Animal Health Center at the Bronx Zoo, where it is under the care of the zoo&#8217;s animal and veterinary teams. Initial examinations indicate that the fox appears to be in good condition,&#8221; the WCS said. &#8220;Veterinarians are awaiting results from additional routine health screening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A permanent home for the fox will be found once it is given a clear bill of health, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A red fox is being cared for at the Bronx Zoo after stowing away on a cargo ship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1457,128,35541,9,24,63,35540,129,131,130,1295],"class_list":["post-161509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-animals","tag-bronx","tag-funny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-odd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}