The release of the computer-animated Hollywood comedy adventure film Zootopia has given rise to illegal online sales of fennec foxes, the West China Metropolis Daily reported on Wednesday. The ...

Ever since Li Xing’s son saw Disney’s “Zootopia” two weeks ago, the 7-year-old from Tianjin, China, has been obsessed with getting his own Nick Wilde, the red fox con artist at the heart of the movie.

The original “Zootopia” was a minor miracle. Here was a Disney animated film that took themes of race and prejudice and managed to make a sensitive-to-all-sides tale, anthropomorphize it and, as a ...