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A very sly red fox snuck onto a cargo ship that whisked him from his home in England to the U.S.! The bushy-tailed stowaway, who likely frolicked in the countryside near the port city of Southampton, survived the 3,400-mile journey across the Atlantic and now finds himself behind bars in the Bronx, The Associated Press<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n When the ship docked two weeks later, Port of New York and New Jersey officials discovered the 2-year-old illegal immigrant, detained him and locked him up at the Bronx Zoo.<\/p>\n Veterinarians at the famous facility examined the 11-pound English patient and reported that he appeared healthy in an initial exam, but they are awaiting results from additional screenings.<\/p>\n \u201cHe seems to be settling in well,\u201d Keith Lovett, the zoo\u2019s director of animal programs, told AP. \u201cIt\u2019s gone through a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n For now, the new American is staying in the zoo\u2019s veterinary center, where he\u2019s enjoying a diet of produce, protein and special fox-friendly biscuits. Once it\u2019s determined he\u2019s fit, wildlife experts will find him a new home.<\/p>\n Officials at the Port of Southampton expressed surprise that a fox had secretly booked itself a transatlantic crossing.<\/p>\n \u201cClearly it fancied swapping the Solent [a strait between the Isle of Wight and the English mainland] for the Staten Island Ferry, though next time we\u2019d recommend it consider the Queen Mary 2, which offers the Southampton to New York route with considerably more comfort,\u201d a spokesman quipped, via Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images A very sly red fox snuck onto a cargo ship that whisked him from his home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,12,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-178476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178476","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=178476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iStock-2199018958.jpg_master-scaled.jpg\")
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