Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago A family of foxes frolic in Millennium Park in the early morning on May 23, 2023.Įarly Tuesday, one of the parent foxes hunted down a rat, which a kit scarfed up as the warm early morning sun glowed on the park.Īs the parent went out on the hunt, three kits frolicked and play fought on the garden plaza.ĭeery and her team have partnered with Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute to “let the foxes live here,” closing off the garden’s Dark Plate area with metal fencing during the hours the family typically likes to roam, she said.Ĭurious visitors have tried to track down the fox family to say hello, Deery said. “Everybody loves the babies.” Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago A family of foxes frolic in Millennium Park in the early morning on May 23, 2023. “I know where they all hide during the day, but I can’t say,” Deery said. The family - two adults and six babies - typically pops out when the park is less crowded in the mornings and evenings.ĭeery has watched the “adorable” baby foxes, known as kits, wrestle in the garden and play with food as their parents hunt for rabbits, birds, rodents and plants. The fox family “just walked right in” to the popular downtown park a couple weeks back, said Kathryn Deery, head horticulturalist at the park’s Lurie Garden. Now, the foxes are making their home in Millennium Park and joining the ranks of Chicago’s animal celebrities. In the past few months, people have celebrated piping plovers at the beaches and a chunky snapping turtle along the Chicago River. DOWNTOWN - A family of foxes has joined the list of wild animals stealing Chicago’s heart this spring.
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