Now that I know this, it's going to be super hard to explain to people what a real fox says. "It sounds like a mixture of a dog, cat, owl, and a woman screaming."

@LeothirNanirhandel

10 жыл бұрын

How about working on an imitation instead? :)

@KaleidoscopeKiller

10 жыл бұрын

Totally.

i feel so bad for people who go camping and have no idea what foxes sound like. honestly foxes screaming sound like someone's being murdered

Vixen's Scream is *very* fucking scary in real life. It sounds like a teenage girl getting stabbed, especially when heard from a distance.

I think we all know why we're here.

What does the fox say? SOMETHING I DON'T WANNA HEAR TRYING TO SLEEP.

Oh my god, I heard this call right out side my house and I was freaking out like IS THAT SOMEONE'S INTERMITTENT SCREAMS OF AGONY AND TORTURE AT THE HANDS OF A BRUTAL MURDERER OR SOME DOG BEAR WOLF MAN HUMANOID CREATURE PLOTTING TO TAKE OVER EARTH.

i thought the mating call was a person getting stabbed before this video

1:36 that's the worst. Woke up from that last night, that same scream slightly altered into sounding more like a little girl. When they do that particular scream over and over, it almost sounds like a child screaming for help... abducted in the middle of the night... O_O

Thank God for that! I just freaked out thinking a woman was being bloody murdered or something. Shit me right up! I looked out my window to see a fox running down the road. So I was thinking "I bloody wonder what a fox sounds like" and now I feel better! :')

Here's your answer Ylvis

1:11 Ding ding ding ding ding da-ding.

1:11 what does the Fox say? Yeah he was accurate then... just a biiiiit.

@MissKerrylicious

10 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHA that is what I just told my friend. XD

The Vixen's scream is commonly known as a banshee scream, but it's very likely it was an alarm bark. If the fox has a family, this is the time of year where the young foxes start exploring the territory, and if the fox is worried about its family being out and about, it could be warning them that you and your dog are near by.

as a kid i would hear the mating calls in the cornfields at night it used freak me out hearing a bunch of them screaming like banshees lol

I heard the "vixen scream" for the very first time last night around midnight! I live in the woods backing up to the Smoky Mountain National Park. I was alone on my front porch, and it scared me like I've never been scared before! Seriously! !!!! Thank God for KZread. ?..my husband asked me if I was hallucinating when I told him about it this morning! !!! So I went online and found your video!!! Thanks! !

I came here not because I wanted to know what the fox says, but because I heard that creepy-ass "vixen scream" behind my house. Needless to say, I thought someone was being murdered. D:

Thank you for this video. Been hearing this in the woods near my house and it's freaking the horses out as well as myself! Was able to identify the sound thanks to this video. I never knew foxes could sound so terrifying! It gave me chills...

found foxes cute before they were cool

The fox terriers my parents raised years ago, were true to their name. The wild fox that lived along the river behind our farm would call to our terriers in the evening at sunset and our dogs would answer back. We often wondered what their conversations were about.

After listening to all of these I guess the song isn't that far off. XD

A fox barking is exactly what I have been hearing outside my house the last couple of nights! I couldn't work out what it was at first, but this video has cleared that up for me, Thanks :)

Vixen scream sounds like a women getting attacked or something spooky

thanks for uploading this, I can stop panicking now haha I thought it was something/someone being tortured out there... really disturbed me.

I LOVE FOXES

heard the vixen's scream once while camping with some friends, if i knew a fox made that scream our little camping trip would've lasted longer than 1 hour

I just heard the "vixen scream" in my yard which is weird, because in living here for 21 years, I've never had a fox once

I was utterly alone in the woods pretty far away from civilisation and had just tucked myself in my sleepingbag after reading a pretty creepy crimenovel... I was just wandering into sleepyland when I woke up to screams pretty much right outside my tent! In my woozyness I thought the blairwitch herself was trying to get in and allmost pissed my pants! I had to that night never heard a fox screaming so you can probably imagine how I felt...

Is it just me, or do almost all of these noises sound reeeaaaalllllyyy creepy???!!! The first one sounds like a dog barking, though, so that's not as creepy.

It's disturbing how much they sound like screaming women. D:

I now know that a woman was not being murdered in my neighborhood. It was just a fox's vixen's scream!

I have learned from this that my back yard is the seat of the foxes' central council. Also lots of cats in my area and they all love my garden.

thanks for collecting these sound bites and posting them. I really had no idea what sound the fox makes. finally a pop song leads me to interest and true knowledge in real life.

Wow. Thanks this is the exact sound I'm hear every night around 1am. Coming from the woods and couldn't figure out what it was. So foxes do make sounds

My sister was singing "What does the fox say" I sent her the link to this video.

So THAT'S what the Fox says!

Oh boy, I would hate to see a fox and a goat in the same room. But now my life goal is to adopt a fox and a goat and have it in my house so the cops can be called on me everyday thinking someone is being murdered.

I heard this noise (vixen's scream) once driving down the road. I almost called 911 because I thought it was a woman screeming. I called my husband and he said "oh that's a fox" I went home and looked it up on the internet and sure enough it was exactly that sound. I've seen foxes crossing the road there, so I always go real slow. Thatnks for posting this.

I remember playing manhunt as a child and hearing the Vixens scream. All us kids ran home in fear that someone was getting killed in the woods. To top it off almost calm and went to be half way asleep I heard it again. Had nightmares till I saw a Vixen do it where I could see her. Awesome and creepy all at once.

Warning: do no play with 2 big dogs next to you as you go to have a drink of coffee... Scared me right off my chair (my dogs reaction) and the coffee with the cup is still probably flying all the way up to the moon! what a mess!

So, basically they bark, in a very weird and disturbing way.

Foxes are very curious animals. As long as they think they are safe, they'll keep a safe distance from people, dogs, cats, and other animals to watch them.

I always thought that was part of the joke of the song to be honest, the fox makes a wide variety of sounds.

THERE YOU F***ING GO YLVIS. THIS IS WHAT THE FOX SAYS

Thank you for sharing this... We have fox near us and we had no idea what those screams were. I agree with Claire Brennan, it was scary when we had no idea what it was.

Mating season won't start until January, but calls between mates as they start meeting each other can be heard in December through February. This is actually around the time of the year that young foxes start getting ready to leave the family to find their own territory.

That's great to hear. :) I'd sure love to have a family of foxes playing in my yard. They are very fun to watch. Careful not to scare them, or they'll move away.

As you seem pretty knowledgeable, I have a question. Earlier tonight, I heard what was a sort of yip-yip-yip bark, and then saw a fox. Because it was crossing the road back and forth, I hung around, because cars always seem to speed on that road and I was worried. It was definitely an adult or a large juvenile, and it would cross, walk through two or three front gardens, pause every 10 paces and yip-yip-yip bark, then pause as if it was waiting for a response, then cross over and do the same thing on the other side of the road. It was holding one of its front paws off the ground, which took me a while to realise as it kept passing out of sight. I tried to get near to it, gently (I have a lot of experience with animals in general, but not foxes) and it didn't seem frightened or defensive, but I couldn't get close enough to see its paw and in the end I had to leave it. A web search, this video and a couple of other sites later, it sounds like it was a kit calling for its mother, and I can only assume she ain't coming for a cub that size. Is it possible that it would use a distress call type sound (as opposed to an alarm call) for relatives or his mate? Or is he just a kit who left the family and is hoping someone will come for him anyway? Don't mince words lol, I would rather know anyway because I can't get it out of my head. I know I wouldn't have been able to get near enough to help either way but I keep picturing him pausing and listening, and I wonder if anything eventually heard him and answered.

Oooh okay, I heard a fox doing a alarm call and I mimicked it because I had no clue what it was

Heard the scream at 2am thinking it was an injured dog or something, went out to see and a fox ran right by my legs! 😂 Scared the crap out of me though since I could barely see what it was!

The Vixen's scream got my dog's attention.

Who ever made this forgot: gedding ding ding ding ding de ding de ding.

Did you know, that the Vixen's Scream is also thought to be the cry of the banshee? FX

You might appreciate that I used this video of yours to identify the sounds in the wooded area behind my home. The foxes back there have made various sounds.

Eerie, but very beautiful.

Fox howl, bark and scream sounds beautiful it's close to a wolf almost

Very helpful.. Thank you, we wondered we were hearing and what our dog was freaking out about and this solved it perfectly.

The red fox is my favorite animal - has been since I was a kid. Thanks for this!

Thank you! Now we know for sure what has been waking us up at night (and starting our dog into a barking frenzy!).

What does the Fox say? Who cares about that music video.. this is our noises! :D

Foxes make beautiful sounds. :)

hearing some of these sounds during nightime when youre in a wood is scary as fuck

Ring-ding-ding-ding-ding-geding-geding.

i think we all know why we are all here

That scream... I remember one night, being in bed, and hearing that exact scream. My ex and I were suddenly wide awake and wondered if someone had just gotten murdered in the forest. I'm glad it was just a fox! (Or so I hope.)

I heard this noise early one morning last week and had no idea what it was! Thanks for posting this!

i find the fox's howl kinda cute

I have foxes living at the bottom of my garden and they bark ALL NIGHT and thanks to this guide I found out that they have had Cubs (I think that's the word). Great guide thanks!

Some of the sounds are indeed reminiscent of the song, like the so-called 'gekkering'.

Now I know what the noises are behind my house at night. It gets wild when several join in doing the vixen call. Ive had a mother raise her young in my back yard den for 3 year in a row. It's really neat when the babies emerge for the first time.

1:03 is fucking terrifying. That second batch of screams are identical to a fox in my neighborhood right now. I haven't heard it for two weeks now, but it'll come back. It just screamed and screamed at like 1-4 in the morning. For like ten minutes at a time. I was like bitch what's the problem ;/

The sound sounded like an old lady crying for help, but also like a cute little puppy

This was so informative!!! I have heard just about every one of these calls where we live! I didn't realize they all belong to the fox!!!

The vixens scream sounds like a woman is getting stabbed

Thank you for this post. I heard a scream last night that scared me to death. I'd never heard it before. I've been on KZread listening to animal screams. It was definitely a Fox.

See, foxes don't go ding ding ding ding ding a ding a ding.

Imagine how many views this video has just from people wondering what the fox says.

It was first thought to be a mating call used by female foxes only heard during mating season. But now it is said to be a long distance call used by both males and females that can be heard all year round.

I just watched this video and subscribed right away, because foxes are one of my favourite animals!!! I LOVE FOXES!!!

I just read your fox Q&A. Glad to see my cats are safe. They love to hunt the woods at night.

@StarFoxFan4641

10 жыл бұрын

Your cats are more in danger from coyotes if they are out in the woods at night. (if you have coyotes in your area) But most red foxes will tease cats but try to stay out of striking range. They might look aggressive, but a simple mock charge or swat from the cat will cause the fox to duck away. There are a lot of videos here on YT of cats chasing foxes away. Gray foxes are actually more aggressive to cats, but they are smaller and since gray foxes are slow, a cat can very easily out run a gray fox.

The other night my sister and I were asleep (we share a room) and we were woken up by this terrible noise. To her it sounded like to old ladies screaming at each other but I thought it almost sounded like a mix of a dogs bark and a coyote. I now know that it was the vixen fox... Thank you very much this helped a lot!

thank you so much for this video! my husband and i spent 10 mins looking out the door scratching our heads. our cat was out and we had just let her when when the fox started yelling. now we know what and why thanks to this video. btw, cat will be indoors unless we are out.

Excellent recordings! Thanks so much for posting. From a wildlife fan in red fox territory / north central Florida. :-)

Wow! I hear that sound at night. Never knew what it was. I thought it was a bird that got his days and nights mixed up. Thanks !

I was just woken up a little bit ago (around 4:30 a.m.) by a high pitched screaming sound. I was freaking out! I thought that a woman was being attacked honestly. I live in a pretty residential area of PA so it never crossed my mind that it was a wild animal. Turns out it was the exact sound of the vixen fox that you played. This very much calmed my nerves and let me know a grisly murder was not being committed outside my bedroom window

All I heard was Ringadingdingdindingding

Thanks for an excellant & informative video! While watching, my 2 huskies sat next to me cocking their heads from one side to the other. My red boy, nicknamed The Fox, began to imitate some of the sounds!! Really cool!

Just heard the Vixen's Scream outside my house! And it's 1:10 AM. I just about pooped my pants. :D Haha

I have seen (she's beautiful) the vixen and heard her calling last night, and it wounded like there were babies as well. I live in Central New York, is this mating season. They are so precious and I am honored to live by them!

whoever posted "what does the fox say" would look stupid to whoever saw this

Ladies and Gentleman the mystery has finally been solved....What the fox says.

thank-you for posting these sounds, we have the same in the neighborghood wich is fairly new, oh well we also have lately more rabbits than ever before.

Started playing, and then the cat came over from the other room, looking very worried. ::switches to headphones::

I LOVE FOXES!!

Thank you! I heard one last night and thought it was an animal being hurt! I got out of bed and looked out all my windows

Love the song. Very, very creative with wild choreography. Heard fox in yard last night and dog went crazy. He was in the house. We've seen many in the Hamptons, NY. Love it, love it, love it!

Actually it is extremely varied, my aunt is married to a guy who owns a fox fur farm, and the sounds those things make can range from cute to downright terrifying and spinechilling. Sometimes it sounds like a cute puppy, other times can sound like a terrified child in pain. Really slept bad when I visited her in my childhood hehe.

Foxes do make a different screaming sound when they are happy, and they also make a sound that sounds very much like a human laugh when they are happy.

Thought something was dying outside. Sounds travel really well in my neighborhood so I honestly had no idea what I was hearing. Just some eerie scream. I am glad it is a fox and not a person.

Ohhh so that awful scream is the vixen's call! I've been hearing that for years, thought some rabid cats were fighting, or some poor woman was being attacked or something; turns out it was just a fox. Thx for this video, puts mine and my family's mind at ease.

imagine walking through the woods alone by night and herd all them sounds I think I would run for my life :')