{"id":163571,"date":"2026-03-14T22:58:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163571\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T22:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T22:58:27","slug":"red-fox-stowaway-from-uk-finds-shelter-in-nys-bronx-zoo-after-transatlantic-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163571\/","title":{"rendered":"Red fox stowaway from UK finds shelter in NY\u2019s Bronx zoo after transatlantic trip"},"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 <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/new-york\/\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York<\/a>, 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 late Wednesday.<\/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>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<p>(FRANCE 24 with AFP)<\/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":163572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[10344,1457,128,9,24,63,67423,129,131,130,6666],"class_list":["post-163571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-americas","tag-animals","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bright-side","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163571","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=163571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}