In the "The Wandering Earth 2" movie
After the fall of the space station
Several small animals stood up
Watch the falling space station
Source: Movie screenshot
They are Ding Man from The Lion King
Moe world representative - fox
Source: Baidu Encyclopedia
Vixes are also known as thin-tailed mongoose, sun cats, mongooses, grey swamp beavers, swamp beavers, grey-clawed foxes, sea cats, and island mongooses. It is found in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, mainly including Angola, Namibia and Botswana.
The coat color is usually light yellowish brown mixed with gray , bronze , or slightly silverish brown , with short, parallel stripes running across the back , extending from the base of the tail to the shoulders, each with different stripes. When they stand, they use the black area of their abdomen to absorb the sun's heat.
Source: Shenzhen Wildlife Park
Foxes have dark hairs next to their eyes and ears, don't underestimate these black hairs, this is a fox's unique artifact.
When the fox is digging a burrow, the hair next to the ear can not only block dust and dirt from entering the ear, but also resemble a sponge on a microphone, which has the effect of collecting sound and reducing noise, which greatly increases the fox's hearing and can detect potential dangers in all directions earlier.
Source: Shenzhen Wildlife Park
The "dark circles" around their eyes, similar to human sunglasses, can block bright light and even allow foxes to look directly at the sun without burning their eyes, which can help foxes detect predators from the air in advance and avoid danger.
In "The Lion King", Ding Man takes Simba to find strange bugs for food. In nature, foxes do indeed feed on insects, but their recipes have more "poisonous" delicacies - scorpions, poisonous snakes, spiders, to be precise, foxes are real "poison killers"!
In the process of tens of millions of years of predation, foxes have evolved a system of immunotoxins, and its molecular structure of acetylcholine receptors is different from other mammals, more similar to snake receptors. The neurotoxins in snake venom can attach to choline receptors, blocking signals from nerves, so foxes can be immune to snake venom.
Source: Shino Natural History Museum
Today
The system has been upgraded
Make the fox a powerful nemesis of all kinds of poisonous creatures
They can be face-free
Raw swallowing scorpion tail poison sac
Even the stinger above is not afraid
The fox is a highly social animal, living together in groups, often numbering up to thirty or forty. The fox will dig a huge hole similar to a human apartment, which leads in all directions and has many entrances and exits. The foxes are neighbors with a clear division of labor and a harmonious relationship.
The vixen's sociality is closer to that of a matrilineal society, that is, having a mother and an unstable father.
Source: The Paper
Each fox population generally consists of 2 to 50 foxes, with the internal rulers being male and female leaders, with the male leader being elected by the female leader.
Female leaders normally kill all their youngs to ensure the best chance of survival for their offspring, and they also banish or kill females who offend their young. So most of the foxes in the same group are all siblings or children of the queen.
When large troops go out to feed
There will always be several individuals
Take the initiative to stand guard as a sentry
Be aware of the dangers everywhere
If they find natural enemies
will yell to alert the companions
The entire population will quickly hide in the burrow
Source: New Discovery Magazine
Arik Kersenbaum, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, has been studying the sound communication of animals and using algorithms to analyze and compare their sounds. "When they (foxes) are foraging, they always keep making noises, just to let people know, 'I'm here, everything is fine, there are no predators around'." By constantly making this soft call, they can keep in touch with each other.
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Finishing: Dong Xiaoxian
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