A bat-eared fox has escaped from its enclosure at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. But staff think it hasn't gone far.

The gray fox, an animal native to the Sonoran Desert, repeatedly bit a person on their foot and leg near the Cypress Picnic Area of Mount Lemmon, Game and Fish said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

The search is on for a female bat-eared fox that escaped from a holding facility at The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens Monday evening. Zoo officials said the fox was last seen around 9:30 p.m. "Per ...

DESCRIPTION: The desert kit fox is a small fox of slender build, exceptionally large ears, heavy underfur(pale bleached gray on top and whitish on the underside ...

Extending from the southeastern US states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas deep into central Mexico, the Chihuahuan Desert offers a kaleidoscope of textures and colours that shape its unique ...