First of all, I would like to introduce you to a concept: trade name. Sometimes the real name of a certain pet is not contagious enough, it sounds very commonplace, which may affect business opportunities, so in order to attract attention, businessmen will give this pet a very loud or special name, which is called a trade name.
To give a few examples, friends who like parrots must know the name Xuanfeng, but the Chinese official name of the cockatoo is called the cockrot. Chicken tail, at first hearing, is not so powerful, and as soon as the name Xuanfeng is said, it instantly becomes tall. There's also the Mexican blunt-mouthed salamander, a formal name that doesn't sound very good or even awkward, but it has a rather domineering trade name called Hexagonal Dinosaur.
I have to say that human business acumen is sometimes really powerful, and it is so artistic to name animals. Squirrels are also one of the popular pets that many people like now, and there are many types of them, among which there is a squirrel whose trade name is also very domineering, it is called the Devil King Squirrel, or the Devil Squirrel, the Big Devil King Squirrel.
The name sounds like the final boss in some anime or game, and the protagonist and the player have to go to great lengths to attack it, but after defeating the Demon King, they can save the princess without shame... No, live a happy life.
Well, seriously. Since the Demon King Squirrel is a trade name, what is the scientific official name of this squirrel? A: The Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris). Still the old routine, the real name is very general, so it is a glorious and beautiful name.
Regarding the origin of the trade name Demon King, it is said that because it is usually a black-and-white, red-and-white body, and the ears have pointed long hairs, so the name Demon King is attached. But in fact, people are just a soft and cute little cute, and have nothing to do with the evil big boss.
A brief introduction to the Eurasian red squirrel, it is widely distributed in the temperate and cold regions of Eurasia, and there are currently more than 20 subspecies according to the distribution. Most of them are kept as pets in the Northeast Subspecies of Eurasian Red Squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris mantchuricus), and there are several Subspecies of Eurasian Red Squirrels distributed in Russia with the trade name "Snow Squirrel", which is relatively expensive but very beautiful.
In fact, the snow squirrel and the demon king squirrel are the same animal, both are Eurasian red squirrels, but the subspecies are different, so the color of the coat is not the same.
Is the Demon King Squirrel good or not? In fact, for pet novices, the Demon King Squirrel is considered to be the starting level, and it is not too difficult to raise. Moreover, the Demon King Squirrel has a lively and docile personality, and if he is raised from a young age, he can establish a very strong relationship with the shoveler, the interaction is very good, and he also has a certain IQ and learning ability.
I know a few friends who have raised demon king squirrels for many years, and they take their own demon king out to climb trees to play without a leash, and they will obediently come back with a shout. However, such a well-behaved demon king can not be sought, and the requirements for the shoveler itself are also very high, so the novice can not be in a hurry, and it is best to take it out to play the whole process, so as not to run away.
Squirrels are rodents, even the Demon King, who still need to actively wear and tear to fight against the growing incisors to achieve a state of balance. Therefore, the breeding demon king squirrel must be equipped with a device for grinding teeth, which can be nuts, branches, or rods.
The Demon King Squirrel is an arboreal squirrel that likes to climb and jump, so the cage prepared for it can not be too narrow, and it is best to have a large cage with a certain height.
The money in the cage must not be saved, this is not a consumable after all, so it is best to work harder. If the cage is too small, it is easy to cause stereotypical reactions of squirrels. Stereotypes are a type of stress response in which the squirrel repeatedly jumps or wanders from two to three points in a narrow cage, repeating this meaningless cycle all the time.
Don't think this is cute, this is a precursor to mental illness, which in the long run will make the squirrel emotionally out of control, manic, and serious will also produce self-harm (self-harm), resulting in consequences that the shoveler does not want to see.
Demon King squirrels mainly eat young leaves, nuts, berries, fungi in the wild, and occasionally catch worms and insects to eat, and are mainly vegetarian omnivores. However, the demon king squirrels raised in the cage are not recommended to feed nuts with too high fat for a long time, because the wild squirrels have a lot of exercise every day to consume energy, and even if they jump in the cage, they can't consume enough calories and fat, and it is easy to get fat.
Excessive obesity is easy to suffer from a variety of diseases, so it is best to choose a variety of multigrain ratios of professional squirrel feed, with a small amount of nuts, fruits, vegetables and grinding sticks to feed, and let it maintain a certain amount of exercise every day, you can take it out to play with it, not only can lose weight, relax the nature of the rat, but also cultivate feelings with the shoveler.