Like many other canid species, red foxes scent mark through urine, feces, anal sac secretions, supracaudal glands, and glands around the tail, lips, jaws, and pawpads.

Red fox scent marking is through urine, feces, anal sac secretions, the supracaudal gland, and glands around the lips, jaw, and the pads of the feet.

Like many other canid species, red foxes have tail glands, located 75 millimeters above the root of the tail on its upper surface and lies within the dermis and subcutaneous tissue.

^{• Image | © Karen Bullock, Some Rights Reserved, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
• Sources | (Fox, 2007; MacDonald & Reynolds, 2005)}

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