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Ecologist Adele Brand has devoted her life to understanding the fabled yet enigmatic fox. Now she reveals their secrets in this extraordinary portrait of our most remarkable wild neighbors.The fox. For thousands of years myth and folklore have celebrated its cunning intelligence. Today the red fox is the nature s most populous carnivore, its dancing orange tail a common sight in backyards. Yet who is this wild neighbor, truly How do we negotiate this uneasy new chapter of an ancient relationship Join British ecologist Adele Brand on a journey to discover the surprising secrets of the fabled fox, the familiar yet enigmatic creature that has adapted to the human world with astonishing some say, unsettling success.Brand has studied foxes for twenty years across four continents from the Yucatn rainforest to India s remote Thar Desert, from subarctic Canada to metropolitan London.