A man has been taken to hospital after he was attacked by a fox on his property north of Melbourne.
Paramedics rushed to a homestead in Romsey, 60 kilometres north of Melbourne in the Macedon Ranges, about 6am after reports of an "animal related incident".
Advanced life support paramedics treated a man in his 50s for lower body injuries after he was bitten by a fox.
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He was taken to Northern Hospital in a stable condition.
Exotic wildlife veterinarian Dr Nicole Su said attacks on humans by foxes were "really out of the ordinary".
"Unfortunately we are seeing [foxes] encroaching onto more and more urban areas and we're having more sightings as well, and what we are seeing is they are getting bolder," she said.
"This is the first time I've heard of such a bad attack on a person, but I have heard of chickens snatched out of their coops, rabbits snatched out of their enclosures."
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