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Foxes have the most repulsive smell, alive or dead. We often see dead foxes on our farm and they just decompose in situ. So, does anything eat foxes? (continued)

Len Winokur, Leeds, UK

Various carrion feeders, including the golden eagle and buzzard, have been observed eating fox carcasses. But let us not forget about foxes themselves.

Foxes are opportunistic omnivores, whose diet includes rodents, berries and carrion. A study of the scat and stomach contents of road-killed specimens (to assess whether cannibalism could explain the transmission of a parasite) indicated that their diet includes cadavers of their own kind.

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