Red fox has a well-developed sense of hearing and smell, is cunning in sex and agile in action. I like to be alone. Prey at night. They usually come out at night and hide in caves to sleep during the day. Their long tails can prevent moisture and keep warm, but in remote places, they sometimes come out to look for food during the day. So how does its habitat and living habits make it?

Red Fox

Habitat

The habitat of red foxes is very diverse, such as forests, grasslands, deserts, mountains, hills, plains, and near villages, and even on the outskirts of cities. Habitatable. General records say that red foxes live in earth burrows, tree cavities or abandoned burrows of animals. Sometimes they even live in dens with badgers. They mostly live on hillsides, often living in large rock crevices or ravines, and only live in their nests during the breeding season. The red fox's nest is a hole in the ground with a diameter of about 25-30 cm, often 2-3 meters deep into the ground. Generally on sunny slopes, where the soil is looser and there are fewer stones, it is easy to make holes. Red foxes use badger holes, old holes or tomb holes, or burrow under large rocks. Red foxes tend to live in a single burrow, including one female and several males, and each fox group has a certain area of red foxes. Generally, they go out day and night, crouch in the cave during the day, and lie down holding their tails.

Red foxes like to live in burrows, tree holes or rock crevices, and sometimes occupy the nests of rabbits, badgers and other animals. In winter, there is water vapor coming out of the cave, and there is obvious frost, and scattered Footprints, urine and feces, etc. There are new soil dug up around the entrance of the cave in summer, there are obvious footprints on it, and there is a very strong smell of fox. However, the habitat of red foxes is often not fixed, and except for the breeding period and the breeding period, they generally live alone.

Life habits

Behavior

Red foxes have developed hearing and smell, cunning sex, and quick action . I like to be alone. Prey at night. They usually come out at night and hide in caves to sleep during the day. Their long tails can prevent moisture and keep warm, but in remote places, they sometimes come out to look for food during the day. Although red foxes have short legs, they have sharp claws and can run very fast. When chasing prey, the speed can reach more than 50 kilometers per hour, and they are good at swimming and climbing trees. It mainly feeds on grassland voles, mice, squirrels, rabbits and mice, and also eats wild birds, frogs, fish, insects, etc., as well as various wild fruits and crops.

Red foxes are suspicious by nature, and most of the time when they act, they first carefully observe the surrounding environment, so they have the word suspicious in China. When encountering an enemy, the red fox will use a secret weapon hidden in its body, the anal gland, to secrete a body odor that can almost suffocate other animals. The foul smell makes the pursuer have to stop. In critical situations, red foxes can also escape by fleeing into the flock and jumping into the river to hide. The red fox caught by the hunter also has a set of skills of playing dead. It can temporarily breathe weakly. It seems to be dying, and it is at the mercy of others, but when people are unprepared, it suddenly runs away quickly. These cunning behaviors are Chihu's superb means of survival.

The red fox has a cunning temperament, a strong memory, a well-developed sense of hearing and smell, agility and durability. Unlike other canines, which mostly hunt for food, they can do whatever they want. All kinds of ways to catch the prey with tactics. Red foxes tend to first look for traces of red foxes in areas with lush vegetation and frequent voles and hares based on smells, calls, and footprints, and then approach their prey alertly and calmly, and even crawl completely on the ground. Go ahead, lest the prey be frightened and flee, burrow into a cave or under a rock or tree, then crouch down, prepare to wait for an opportunity, and then step forward lightly, then speed up, and finally become Sprint, strike suddenly, and catch prey. Sometimes they pretend to be in pain or chase their tails to attract the attention of small animals such as cave mice.

Diet

Red foxes are not only predators, they are also random omnivores and even killers, including voles, house mice, yellow Rat, kangaroo, chipmunk, etc., various wild mice and hares are the main food, also eat frogs, fish, birds, bird eggs, insects, etc., encounter animal carcasses, food in the garbage abandoned by humans, etc. I will not let it go, and eat wild fruits or berries such as strawberries, acorns, and grapes. If the food cannot be eaten in a while, it will carefully choose a hidden place, bury it carefully, and go through some camouflage to remove all traces before leaving to avoid being discovered by other animals. The red fox likes to tease the prey that has been unable to escape, and often kills all the prey it can catch and never releases it. This is called killing behavior, which may be caused by instinct or by some stimuli, or both.

Killing refers to a strange behavior of some ferocious carnivores when hunting, that is, killing a prey that far exceeds their food intake at one time. In general, animals hunt to meet their own food needs. But the act of killing clearly violates this rule. More studies have found that not only red foxes, but also many animals such as lions, polar bears, leopards, etc., have killing behavior.