| Abstract: | The diet of foxes living in a mixed dry sclerophyll forest at Naringal East near Warrnambool, Victoria was investigated by analysis of scats collected between October 1972 and July 1975. The results indicate that foxes in the study area are opportunistic feeders whose diet consists mainly of rabbits despite the abundance of suitably sized native mammals and an even greater abundance of birds. During summer and autumn the foxes consume large numbers of insects, particularly the black cricket, Gryllus servillei, and the Australian plague locust, Chortoicetes terminifera, and blackberries. |
