Fox would not have attacked baby twins unprovoked, say wildlife experts

Pauline Koupparis said she found her nine-month-old daughters Lola and Isabella covered in blood with a fox still prowling in the nursery of their East London, England home.
But John Bryant, an expert in urban wildlife, said attacks on humans by foxes were unheard of, and suggested the injuries were more likely to have been caused by a domestic pet.
“I’ve only ever heard of two [similar] cases in my 40 years dealing with foxes, one of which turned out eventually to be a German shepherd and the other a cat, so it’s not in my experience of fox behaviour,” he said.
Mr Bryant, an Animal Welfare Consultant at the British Humane Wildlife Deterrence Association, said if a fox was responsible for the attack it was likely to have been a cub.
“There are thousands of three month old teenage cubs now wandering around beginning to explore their parents’ territory,” he told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.

“They would be on the prowl looking around and if there’s an open door, even a cat flap, they will walk into houses and walk round and mess on the bathroom floor and sometimes sleep on the bed if the people aren’t around.
“But I see no reason why a fox would do this, unless it jumped into a cot and then found itself with squirming children underneath it and couldn’t get out through the bars or something. I don’t know, but it just doesn’t make any sense to me.”
Terry Nutkins, the English naturalist and television presenter, also said a fox was highly unlikely to be responsible for the attack on the twins.
“They are carnivores and opportunist feeders, but they don't attack humans. I can't remember a single verified case of a fox attacking a human unprovoked,” he wrote in an online article.
Mr Nutkins agreed with Mr Bryant that, if a fox did attack the twins, it was probably a cub who panicked on finding itself trapped in their bedroom.
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