The red fox is the largest and most common fox, and one of the most widely distributed and numerous wild predators in the world, usually bright reddish-brown in different shades, but the coat color varies greatly, including the silver-gray black (silver fox) with a silver-gray fur tip, an intermediate type that becomes a "hybrid type", there are also light white to golden yellow, and the back of the ears of all color types is usually black, and the tail tip is mostly white, but there are exceptions, such as the albino red fox. The red fox is one of the prototypes of the mythical novel, its distribution in North America, Eurasia and North Africa, can it live in almost all habitats, including farmland areas, suburbs and urban areas of the Tropic of Cancer, but they are not found in the northernmost part of the Arctic and very arid deserts, this animal was introduced to Australia together, and the result was a serious impact on the local marsupials, showing how strong the red fox is to adapt to the environment.
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Red foxes are highly random animals, the main food is reptiles, birds and small mammals no larger than hares, already eggs, amphibians, fish, invertebrates, fruits, acorns, sedges, mushrooms, etc., are uncompromising omnivores, and they also eat wheat, corn and other crops, mainly at night and morning and dusk, in winter and undisturbed areas often active during the day, usually alone, but in the water bird nest group and garbage dumps and other food-rich locations will also gather in groups, Storing food for months to eat later, they have an amazing ability to remember food storage, and storing food is probably the most important food for winter.
Red fox is usually a solitary dwelling, is also a single-parent system, breeding mate is the basic social unit, but the social structure of the breeding period is very flexible, in the case of sufficient food will form a group, the group is generally composed of a male fox and up to five female foxes, the female fox that breeds in the group may be produced alone in the cave, may also be produced in a common cave, the young female fox is mostly the offspring that have grown up, do not participate in reproduction, play the role of assistant, its field area depends on the richness of food, the more abundant the food, The larger the population, the smaller the area of the field, such as the red fox in urban areas that use artificial garbage dumps.
Red fox usually breeds in winter to February of the second year, the Spring Festival 3-5 months of production, the general gestation period is more than 40 days to two months, according to the number of food, each fetus can give birth to more than ten cubs, but generally about 3-6, the cubs are born after about 2 months of weaning, most individuals after half a year began to spread out of the family, until the next breeding period, some young red foxes usually stay as assistants, female foxes reach the age of reproduction after 10 months, The red fox has a high mortality rate, especially in the first year, the human factor is the main cause of death, in addition, its natural enemies are numerous, there are large birds of prey, other carnivores and other large canines, and the red fox is also the main vector of rabies, so although it is quite cute, we still do not have to easily approach it. It generally does not last more than five years in the wild, but can reach 15 years under artificial rearing.
The adaptability and resilience of the red fox is amazing, but people in some areas think that it is an ominous symbol, and take a large-scale hunt for it, but fortunately their distribution is so large that it can withstand high-intensity human hunting, one or two million wild red foxes are killed as fur beasts every year, about the same number of wild red foxes are hunted by sports hunters or disappeared as pests, and have never been protected within their distribution, but on the mainland it is in a much better situation, because it is a second-level protected animal on the mainland. Hunting is prohibited.
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