A selection of online books available at archive.org on foxes. Not arranged in any particular order. If you know of a book that may interest us or others, drop a link in the comments!
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Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini HistoriƦ animalium by Gessner, Conrad Publication date 1551
Fabularum Aesopicarum delectus (Fox Fables) Publication date 1698
The natural history of Norway by Pontoppidan, Erich; Berthelson, Andreas; Blackburne, John Publication date 1755
Second edition - Encyclopaedia Britannica by National Library of Scotland Publication date 1778
General zoology; or, Systematic natural history by Shaw, George; Stephens, James Francis Publication date 1800-1826
An history of the earth, and animated nature by Goldsmith, Oliver Publication date 1804 (1825)
A cabinet of quadrupeds by Church, John Publication date 1805
Memoirs of British quadrupeds, illustrative principally of their habits of life, instincts, sagacity, and uses to mankind by Bingley, William; Howitt, Samuel Publication date 1809
Interesting selections from animated nature, with illustrative scenery by Daniell, William Publication date 1809
A natural history of British quadrupeds by Bewick, Thomas; Davison, William Publication date 1820
Appendix to Captain Parryās Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific by Parry, William Edward Publication date 1825
A history of British animals by Fleming, John Publication date 1828
Fauna boreali-americana, or, The zoology of the northern parts of British America by Richardson, John, Sir; Swainson, William Publication date 1829
Field Sports of the North of Europe: Comprised in a Personal Narrative of a Residence in Sweden and Norway by Llewelyn Lloyd Publication date 1831
A description of the part of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy; ...series of letters to Robert Southey by Bray, Anna Eliza Publication date 1836
XLVII.āSketch of the natural history of Leeds and its vicinity for twenty miles Publication date 1840
A natural history of British and foreign quadrupeds by Fennell, James Hamilton Publication date 1841
The Naturalistās Library, Mammalia - History of British Quadrupeds (Volume V)
by Jardine, William (Ed.); MacGillivray, William Publication date 1843
The viviparous quadrupeds of North America by Audubon, John James; Bachman, John; Audubon, John Woodhouse; Audubon, Victor Gifford; Hitchcock, William E Publication date 1845
Natural history by Wood, J. G. (John George) Publication date 1854
Scandinavian adventures by Lloyd, L. (Llewelyn) Publication date 1854
The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races by Arthur Gobineau, H . Hotz Publication date 1856
The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world by Richardson, J; Dallas, W.S; Cobbold, T.S Publication date [1859-62?]
The naturalist in Norway by Bowden, John, Rev Publication date 1869
The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe by NordenskioĢld, A. E; Leslie, Alexander Publication date 1881
The life and works of Thomas Bewick by Thomson, David Croal Publication date 1882
Practical game preserving by Carnegie, William Publication date 1884
Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes: a monograph of the Canidae by Mivart, St. George Jackson Publication date 1890
Forty-five years of sport by Corballis, James Henry; Fisher, Arthur T Publication date 1891
Escaped from Siberia; the adventures of three distressed fugitives by Tissot, Victor; AmƩro, Constant; Frith, Henry, Publication date 1894
An old naturalist: Conrad Gesner Volume v. 47 (1895)
A hand-book to the British mammalia by Lydekker, Richard Publication date 1896
Zoological Record by Zoological Society of London Publication date 1900
The Fox by Thomas Francis Dale Publication date 1906
Foxes at home and reminiscences by Talbot, J. S Publication date 1906
The Complete Foxhunter by Charles Richardson Publication date 1908
The united editors perpetual encyclopedia; a library of universal knowledge combined with an unabridged dictionary of the English language. (Vol. 11) Publication date 1911
Hunters and hunting in the arctic by Orleans, Louis Philippe Robert, duc d' Publication date 1911
Russian expansion on the Pacific, 1641-1850 by Golder, Frank Alfred Publication date 1914
Wild life of the world : a descriptive survey of the geographical distribution of animals by Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Publication date 1916
Food & fur breeders of America by Food & fur directory co., Fort Worth, Tex. [from old catalog] Publication date 1919
Foxhunting on the Lakeland Fells by Richard Clapham Publication date 1920
Spitsbergen; an account of exploration, hunting, the mineral riches; future potentialities of an Arctic archipelago by Brown, R. N. Rudmose Publication date 1920
Handbook and guide to the British mammals: Lord Derby Natural History Museum, Liverpool by Liverpool Museum (Liverpool, England) Publication date 1921
Animal life of the British Isles : a pocket guide to the mammals, reptiles and batrachians of wayside and woodland by Step, Edward Publication date 1921
Foxes, foxhounds and fox-hunting by Clapham, Richard, b. 1878 Publication date 1922
The Intelligence Of Animals by Frances Pitt Publication date 1931
The Book Of The Fox by Richard Clapham Publication date 1936
The American Naturalist July-August 1943: Vol 77 Iss 771 Publication date July-August 1943
Wild animals in Britain by Pitt, Frances Publication date 1944
Hereditas-Genitisk Arkiv 1947: Vol 33 Iss 1-2 Publication date 1947
The natural history of mammals by BourliĆØre, FranƧois Publication date 1956
Wild animals of the British Isles by Burton, Maurice Publication date 1968
A chronological history of the discovery of the Aleutian Islands : or, The exploits of Russian merchants by Berkh, VasiliiĢ Nikolaevich Publication date 1974
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) by British Museum (Natural History) Publication date 1976
Animal invaders by Roots, Clive Publication date 1976
Wildlife in Britain and Ireland by Perry, Richard Publication date 1978
Carnivores of Europe by Burton, Robert Publication date 1979
Thorburn's wildlife by Cardew, Jeremy Publication date 1979
Man & beast : the natural and unnatural history of British mammals
by Freethy, Ron
Publication date 1983
Naturalized mammals of the world by Lever, Christopher Publication date 1985
The wolves of Mount McKinley by Murie, Adolph Publication date 1985
Animals of the British countryside by Gordon, W. J Publication date 1988
British mammals by Matthews, Leonard Harrison Publication date 1989
Brave new wilderness : wildlife in Britain since the industrial revolution by Weightman, Gavin Publication date 1990
Recommended code of practice for the care and handling of ranched fox by Canadian Federation of Humane Societies Publication date 1990
by P W Collins Publication date 1991
The complete fox by Stocker, Les Publication date 1994
Red fox : the catlike canine by Henry, J. David Publication date 1996
The Red fox in Norway: Morphological adaptation or random Variation in size? by Karl Frafjord; Ivar Stevy Publication date 1998
Foxes by Macdonald, David W. (David Whyte) Publication date 2000
Red foxes by Whitledge, Doran Publication date 2002
The beast within : animals in the Middle Ages by Salisbury, Joyce E Publication date 2011
Updating the evolutionary history of Carnivora (Mammalia) by Nyakatura, Katrin; Bininda-Emonds, Olaf RP Publication date 2012-02-27
Historical Newspaper and Journal Accounts
The sportsman's calendar by Lawrence, John Publication date 1818
Letters on the management of hounds by Horlock, Knightley William; Scrutator Publication date 1852
Evening bulletin (Maysville, Ky.: 1887) by Evening bulletin Publication date 1892-06-28
Sports Afield 1893-08: Vol 11 Iss 2 Publication date 1893-08
Memoir of the Kilkenny Hunt ; compiled by one of its members in the year of its centenary Publication date 1897
The Badminton Magazine 1903-02: Vol 16 Iss 91 Publication date 1903-02
Game and foxes : or, The protection of foxes not incompatible with the preservation of game by Millard, F. W Publication date 1906
The Wensleydale Hounds Past and Present, 1775-1907 by F. Chapman Publication date 1907
The Illustrated poultry record Publication date 1909
Notes and Queries 1930-12-13: Vol 159 Iss 24 Publication date 1930-12-13
The Chronicle 1947-12-26: Vol 11 Iss 17 Publication date: 1947-12-26
The Chronicle 1953-12-04: Vol 17 Iss 15 Publication date 1953-12-04
Imported Fox Disease: Worldwide Report, Epidemiology by Defense Technical Information Center Publication date 1985-11-22
The New sporting magazine, Volume 3
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=14QEAAAAQAAJ
Coat Colour, Behaviour and Domestication
Second Nature: Domestication as Experiment and Metaphor in 20th Century American Psychobiology (2014)
"Before committing himself solely to the human subject, Keeler carried out another nearly decade-long study on mammals. Following his work on mink, he looked for an āanimal of high intelligence possessing more ways of expressing behavior than in rats and mink.ā
In his later reflections, Keeler portrayed this strategy as a stepwise approach toward the discovery of pigment gene pleiotropy in humans. He thought first of dogs, echoing Alan Gregg that these intensively selected and thoroughly inbred animals displayed marked differences in morphology and behavior. Dogs, though, were already domesticated and would not show the dramatic alteration of temperament associated with the appearance of a relative few single gene substitutions. Instead he chose farm foxes. These animals, like mink, had been brought into captivity only recently, displayed several mutations of the coat, and were raised in large numbers by fur breeders, who would absorb most of the costs of the study.
Keeler again arranged with a commercial breeder, Edward Fromm of Hamburg, Wisconsin, who had responded to Keelerās inquiry that he was aware of behavioral differences in the various mutant variants on his farm. Shortly thereafter Keeler was invited to the farm to evaluate the animals. Fromm instructed Keeler to enter the open air priming range alone, still unknown to the foxes, and to approach their feeding trough.
Keeler later recounted:
When I arrived with my entourage of foxes at the feeding station I made myself small by getting down on one knee, and this seemed to relieve somewhat the tension of my hosts. I held my wrist to my mouth and made a series of mousy squeaks. At this an interested crowd began to close in on me from every direction. All the foxes near me were Ambers with an occasional Glacier. Farther away I could recognize a Pearl or a Silver and in the far distance a few Platinums. Red foxes never show themselves like this, although they sometimes find their way into the range.
Keeler was impressed by the arrangement of these foxes, a gradient of coat colors according to their aversion to him, a stranger. āThis must be another case of behavior synthesis leading to tame behavior,ā he wrote, āWe must investigate it.ā His cooperation with Fromm was similar to the relationship he maintained with Larry Moore during the mink project: Fromm provided the pelted carcasses of farm foxes, from which Keeler would remove the adrenal glands and pituitaries. Again adrenal weight relative to body weight was highest in the wild type animal, the red fox, which bore no coat color mutations. Relative adrenal weight declined progressively for Silver (non-agouti black with silver modifiers), Pearl (non-agouti black and blue), Amber (black, blue, and chocolate), and Glacier (black, blue, chocolate, and white) foxes, that is, in inverse relation to the number of mutations.
Relative pituitary weight declined in a similar pattern, though the effect was generally not statistically significant. These results agreed with those Keeler had found more than twenty years earlier in rats and a decade prior in mink. With Frommās foxes, though, Keeler was able to go further in his experimental manipulations than he had with either the rat or the mink, despite the foxās relatively slow reproduction cycle and development. Thanks to Frommās willingness (and perhaps curiosity), Keeler was able to perform at least one crucial test cross, which mated a tame Amber to a wild red fox. The hybrid was then mated back to the Amber parent. This backcross yielded 8 color morphs as Keeler had predicted (4 were previously unknown) and allowed him to conduct behavioral tests on animals with known genetic constitutions, at least of the selected coat color genes.
He measured their āstartle distance,ā or the least distance allowed between a researcher and the fox before the animal fled, and ārun distanceā or the distance the fox covered after being startled before turning back to view the researcher. These distances were generally less in animals homozygous for recessive mutant alleles at two or more loci than for those with fewer homozygous recessive loci.
These results were similar but not perfectly congruent with Keelerās earlier observations of the non-experimental farm foxes. He ascribed these differences to the fact that all of the foxes from this experimental backcross were at least heterozygously recessive at each coat color locus. Thus, the foxes homozygous at one locus or none might still have displayed the mitigating effects of recessive coat color mutations in simplex (i.e. incomplete dominance). Protein bound iodine in the blood also increased in a stepwise fashion for animals of 1, 2, and 3 coat color mutations, respectively. Keeler took this to mean that the thyroids of foxes with heavier mutation loads were less active or efficient in processing the protein bound iodine to thyroxin. Mutant foxes also carried higher loads of catecholamine derivatives in their urine, which Keeler explained as a tendency to metabolize and excrete the āfight-or-flightā hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine.
As Keeler transitioned from mink to foxes, he met with challenges from the administration of Georgia State College for Women, newly named in 1961, The Womenās College of Georgia. According to Keeler the College President, Robert E. Lee, had opposed faculty research since his election to office in 1956. The following year Keeler was denied a promotion to the Chair of the Biology Department. In 1961, after 13 years at the College, Keeler was offered a partial contract for three months, to teach chemistry rather than biology.
Following this insult, Keeler sought refuge at the nearby Central State Hospital where he was named Director of the Research Division. His new surroundings, at the nationās largest mental health institution, suggested to him new ways of investigating pigment gene pleiotropy, including the use of psychomimetic drugs to mitigate the anxiety and āwildnessā of red foxes. This turn in his research also suggests the facility with which Keeler analogized his experimental animals to his intended subject, humans. Keeler soon described the wild red fox as an ideal model for semi-specific human mental diseases, including schizophrenia and other psychoses.
Keeler and his associates successfully reduced the red foxās excessive fear in proportion to the dosage of fear reducing drugs, like Oxazepam. This treatment brought the behavior of the red fox in line with that of its tame coat color derivatives, a parallel that Keeler emphasized to suggest the applicability of pigment gene pleiotropy to the field of mental health: āThe gradational removal of fear by means of increased dosages of psychomimetic drugs is one of the triumphs of modern medicine, but a stepwise reduction in fear and anxiety response associated with the adding together of Mendelian genes has been little explored.ā
By uncovering the principle at work in domesticated animals that made them less fearful in captivity, Keeler believed he also had a means for the permanent mitigation of the anxieties and other mental diseases afflicting modern humans"
https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/js956k33v
14th Century Foxes:
There is a dragon eating a fox in the last picture.
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/animals/page/3/