Beijing News (reporter Li Ao) a few days ago, the Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve Management Bureau for the first time in the Qinghai Lake Cormorant Island area photographed the national second-level protected animal Tibetan fox. The staff of the Protected Areas Authority said that this was a precious picture captured by the staff squatting in the spot.
Authority staff found the Tibetan fox while collating the photos. Courtesy of respondents
According to Yang Tao, a staff member of the bureau, they took photos here on the 23rd, and when they went back to sort out, they found that one of them was not a common red fox here, but a Tibetan fox that had not been photographed before, "So the next day, we returned to the shooting site, wanted to confirm again, and then see if we could take a video image of the Tibetan fox." ”
Yang Tao said that on the morning of the 24th, they slowly drove the car to the shooting site and found a Tibetan fox cub, but as soon as the car approached, the little Tibetan fox ran into the cave, "We guarded next to its cave for more than 2 hours, and the little Tibetan fox ran out again, which captured its picture." Yang Tao also said that the Tibetan fox photographed the day before yesterday was not this Tibetan fox cub, but an adult Tibetan fox.
From the video provided by the Qinghai Lake National Nature Reserve Administration, it can be seen that a Tibetan fox cub slowly walked to the camera, found a comfortable position, and lay down comfortably, after which it looked around curiously, and did not show panic or evasion in front of the camera.
The staff came to the filming location again and crouched down to the Tibetan fox cub. Respondents provided
It is understood that the Tibetan fox is a national second-level protected animal, the size is close to the red fox or slightly smaller, distributed in the plateau area, common in high-altitude alpine meadows, alpine grasslands, desert grasslands, mainly for wild mice, hares, birds and fruits for food. The Tibetan fox also plays a certain role in the prevention and control of harmful animals in the grassland, which is very beneficial to agriculture and animal husbandry, and is also a beneficial animal.
According to Yang Tao's speculation, there should be a family of three Tibetan foxes living here, which is the breeding period of Tibetan foxes, and the Tibetan fox cubs in the video should be waiting for their parents to return from predation.
Beijing News reporter Li Ao
Edited by Zhang Shujing Proofread by Liu Baoqing