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  • @KaleidoscopeKiller
    @KaleidoscopeKiller 11 років тому +11954

    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."

  • @Ketta139
    @Ketta139 7 років тому +12917

    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

  • @MikeDunn
    @MikeDunn 10 років тому +6534

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

  • @brittanyhaas5574
    @brittanyhaas5574 11 років тому +20980

    I think we all know why we're here.

  • @kid_whodoodles1190
    @kid_whodoodles1190 7 років тому +3145

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

  • @DerpyPotater
    @DerpyPotater 11 років тому +5712

    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.

  • @TheNewFlutist
    @TheNewFlutist 10 років тому +3125

    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

  • @MegaEnderCreeper
    @MegaEnderCreeper 11 років тому +1423

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

  • @StarFoxFan4641
    @StarFoxFan4641  11 років тому +280

    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.

  • @VirtualInsanity15
    @VirtualInsanity15 10 років тому +4814

    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! :')

  • @leiarae8131
    @leiarae8131 10 років тому +5922

    Here's your answer Ylvis

  • @Heartstopbeatingx
    @Heartstopbeatingx 11 років тому +1072

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

    • @MissKerrylicious
      @MissKerrylicious 11 років тому +55

      HAHAHAHA that is what I just told my friend. XD

  • @evildrew81
    @evildrew81 11 років тому +1812

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

  • @robbieann100
    @robbieann100 10 років тому +198

    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 UA-cam. ?..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! !

  • @JinxiiMinx
    @JinxiiMinx 7 років тому +414

    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...

  • @joannpriepke7938
    @joannpriepke7938 8 років тому +143

    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.

  • @Vulcanic74
    @Vulcanic74 10 років тому +523

    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

  • @Bee0613
    @Bee0613 11 років тому +89

    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 :)

  • @BadBartholomew
    @BadBartholomew 11 років тому +951

    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:

  • @de0509
    @de0509 11 років тому +2377

    found foxes cute before they were cool

  • @pkonneker
    @pkonneker 10 років тому +298

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

  • @Kasonas
    @Kasonas 11 років тому +15

    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.

  • @timbone34
    @timbone34 10 років тому +72

    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

  • @Tchernobog
    @Tchernobog 10 років тому +208

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

  • @nustiuma
    @nustiuma 11 років тому +53

    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

  • @jasonworkman2535
    @jasonworkman2535 11 років тому +62

    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.

  • @dumburd
    @dumburd 11 років тому +390

    Vixen scream sounds like a women getting attacked or something spooky

  • @laurensabino182
    @laurensabino182 11 років тому +80

    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

  • @208disneygirl
    @208disneygirl 10 років тому +776

    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.

  • @centralintelligenceagency9003
    @centralintelligenceagency9003 7 років тому +25

    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.

  • @Rottnar
    @Rottnar 10 років тому +244

    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...

  • @rockerGRITS
    @rockerGRITS 10 років тому +93

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

  • @StarFoxFan4641
    @StarFoxFan4641  11 років тому +31

    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.

  • @StarFoxFan4641
    @StarFoxFan4641  11 років тому +69

    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.

  • @helltoyoung
    @helltoyoung 11 років тому +90

    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.

  • @GraceMeyer0203
    @GraceMeyer0203 8 років тому +37

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

  • @karp1091184
    @karp1091184 11 років тому +19

    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.

  • @betanycaballero2438
    @betanycaballero2438 11 років тому +44

    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.

  • @StarFoxFan4641
    @StarFoxFan4641  11 років тому +21

    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.

  • @LouiseVWRARFS
    @LouiseVWRARFS 10 років тому +35

    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.

  • @CeruleanRipple
    @CeruleanRipple 11 років тому +287

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

  • @eric-maier
    @eric-maier 11 років тому +13

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

  • @vykarion
    @vykarion 11 років тому +30

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

  • @bobbieparry646
    @bobbieparry646 10 років тому +217

    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.

  • @abcdefgqwertyuiop1324
    @abcdefgqwertyuiop1324 7 років тому +50

    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!

  • @LucetLux
    @LucetLux 11 років тому +52

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

  • @shirel.a8421
    @shirel.a8421 7 років тому +28

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

  • @PhoenixFallen
    @PhoenixFallen 11 років тому +18

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

  • @lonefoxbushcraft
    @lonefoxbushcraft 11 років тому +802

    I LOVE FOXES

  • @holymolly2520
    @holymolly2520 11 років тому +115

    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!

  • @laurencebrazier2510
    @laurencebrazier2510 11 років тому +33

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

  • @SterbenNL
    @SterbenNL 11 років тому +16

    Eerie, but very beautiful.

  • @StarFoxFan4641
    @StarFoxFan4641  11 років тому +8

    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.

  • @pangaeus
    @pangaeus 11 років тому +14

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

  • @GrantDaily
    @GrantDaily 11 років тому +114

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

  • @gottaplayusa
    @gottaplayusa 11 років тому +5

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

  • @hsvpicguy
    @hsvpicguy 11 років тому +11

    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.

  • @linzy123able
    @linzy123able 11 років тому +12

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

  • @ZeroFrostea
    @ZeroFrostea 7 років тому +1

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

  • @evildrew81
    @evildrew81 11 років тому +49

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

  • @sro4372
    @sro4372 11 років тому +8

    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.

  • @FrankenXANA
    @FrankenXANA 11 років тому +24

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

  • @nunyabees5585
    @nunyabees5585 8 років тому +2

    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 UA-cam listening to animal screams. It was definitely a Fox.

  • @slyfoxyandalifesaver
    @slyfoxyandalifesaver 10 років тому +207

    I swear I must be the only one able to speak fluent fox before that silly song was ever written...

  • @Kaiouri
    @Kaiouri 10 років тому +23

    Foxes make beautiful sounds. :)

  • @h1r43th4l1v3
    @h1r43th4l1v3 11 років тому +24

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

  • @guestguest9
    @guestguest9 7 років тому +2

    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!

  • @12tinnk
    @12tinnk 10 років тому +12

    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

  • @gailsohns806
    @gailsohns806 10 років тому +6

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

  • @Rocky4719
    @Rocky4719 7 років тому +44

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

  • @ellietobe
    @ellietobe 11 років тому +2

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

    • @StarFoxFan4641
      @StarFoxFan4641  11 років тому +14

      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.

  • @StarFoxFan4641
    @StarFoxFan4641  11 років тому +4

    I would say screaming or their laughing gekker sounds. Like how dogs will sometimes bark for no reason, cats will sometimes meow for no reason, foxes will scream for no reason, but their most commonly heard call is the "wow wow wow" call which is like a "rapid fire" bark. I added that call to part 2 fox calls video.

  • @StarFoxFan4641
    @StarFoxFan4641  11 років тому +4

    The Vixen's Scream isn't believed to be a mating call. It could be a long distance call between mates since the mate will sometimes reply to the call, but experts don't understand the full meaning of that call. The fox could be using the Alarm Bark. Sometimes the two calls are very hard to tell them apart.

  • @ryanlauer1586
    @ryanlauer1586 10 років тому +7

    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 ;/

  • @huhkenz
    @huhkenz 11 років тому +2

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

  • @BlackVulpine
    @BlackVulpine 10 років тому +12

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

  • @StarFoxFan4641
    @StarFoxFan4641  11 років тому +4

    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.

  • @xxJannaJessiexx
    @xxJannaJessiexx 11 років тому +7

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

  • @susanstawniak
    @susanstawniak 10 років тому +4

    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!!!

  • @SparkleBabes112
    @SparkleBabes112 10 років тому +7

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

  • @drezi8705
    @drezi8705 11 років тому +487

    i think we all know why we are all here

  • @ChiyuStar
    @ChiyuStar 11 років тому +14

    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.)

  • @Taijifufu
    @Taijifufu 7 років тому +2

    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.

  • @Rock.Nagasaki
    @Rock.Nagasaki 11 років тому +14

    i find the fox's howl kinda cute

  • @lucgodwin7365
    @lucgodwin7365 7 років тому +30

    The vixens scream sounds like a woman is getting stabbed

  • @jabtrack123
    @jabtrack123 11 років тому

    whoever uploaded this was thinking 4 years ahead. They knew this would become valuable and relevant information

  • @Kriatyrr
    @Kriatyrr 11 років тому +5

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

  • @redyoshi1985
    @redyoshi1985 10 років тому +19

    I have a question for the OP about Foxes.
    I know he said Questions about hunting will not be accepted.. Let me assure everyone that I am not a hunter.. Well not with a gun anyway..
    I am a photographer, and I have lots of foxes around here, I hear them call all the time.. I hear that Vixen Scream all the time at night.. I just want to get a good picture, but I don't know much about the foxes.. Where do they live? When are they most likely out? are they extremely skiddish or is it possible to get close to them or will they typically run?
    I want a shot of one of our Red Foxes.. Maybe if I give him some food or something I can get him to hold still long enough to take the picture.. but I am wondering..
    Thanks OP if you can give me any advice on this..
    Vivitar 1040HDDVR, CANNON, PowerShot SX500

    • @StarFoxFan4641
      @StarFoxFan4641  10 років тому +42

      It's not a good idea to feed them because they can become dependent on you and may give up hunting for food themselves. Foxes are very skittish, but have a very strong curiosity. As long as you don't act like a threat, they'll come within a safe distance and may even watch you or bark at you. Their curiosity can get the better of their shyness. Red foxes are most active at dawn and dusk and the best spot to see one is in "edge areas", a spot where a filed meets a wooded area, since their main prey tend to be in those places. The only places I've ever seen them was always in open areas, but still not far from the woods. They can be difficult to photograph because they are always alert and on the move.

  • @tacomanjr.7642
    @tacomanjr.7642 11 років тому +27

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

  • @chattycathy53
    @chattycathy53 11 років тому +2

    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 !

  • @JonasofPersia
    @JonasofPersia 11 років тому +5

    Little bastards keep steeling my gramps' chickens, oh well guess the fox needs to eat too so he's got some energy to party!

  • @rosario-ud3vo
    @rosario-ud3vo 11 років тому +33

    We all know why there are 3+ million views on this video .-.

  • @ShadyAugur
    @ShadyAugur 11 років тому +5

    I heard a vixens scream for the first time when I was 11. Almost wet my pants.

  • @nadsat13
    @nadsat13 10 років тому +2

    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

  • @cadylandon3282
    @cadylandon3282 7 років тому +6

    i heard the screaming one once in girls camp and ran over to the leaderd tent and told them there was a girl in the woods.....i felt really stupid when it happend again and they said it was just a fox.

  • @hayleylightcap1251
    @hayleylightcap1251 11 років тому +20

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

  • @eferrari96
    @eferrari96 11 років тому +97

    better than Ylvis voice

  • @krybyh
    @krybyh 7 років тому

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

  • @carolgelfand5720
    @carolgelfand5720 10 років тому +7

    last night i couldn't sleep and around 4am i heard these sounds. i wasn't sure what i was heating and thought it might be coyotes but your video sounds much more like what i was hearing. one sound i heard almost was like yodeling which i don't hear on the tape. do fox make a sound similar to yodeling. i live in a suburban area that is constantly being savaged by new construction for crappy super sized expensive homes

    • @mejamo55
      @mejamo55 10 років тому +1

      Fascinating. Have heard those sounds but had no idea what it was. Thanks.

  • @tahirabranch9787
    @tahirabranch9787 11 років тому +16

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