I don't know if you have ever heard of a brain teaser, why does the fox not run fast? - Because fox feet (cunning) slippery (cunning). In everyone's eyes, foxes are smart, cunning, good-looking existence, but there is no absolute, there are also stupid and ugly existence in the fox family, and its appearance can become a symbolic existence, it is - "Tibetan fox".
The fox family is generally a very good existence, and the IQ is also relatively high among animals, especially the appearance is also very good-looking. However, there is a traitor in the fox family, not only does not inherit the high IQ of the fox family, but it also looks very cold and funny.
Yes, you read that right, this is the other kind of fox family - the "Tibetan fox". Small eyes, big pie faces, mustaches, shoehorn mouths and even open mouths with a hint of obscenity. From a distance, there is still a bit of high and cold temperament, many netizens see the face of the Tibetan fox is very joyful, so the Tibetan fox is made into an emoji, and the Tibetan fox is also jokingly called "walking emoji" by netizens.
In fact, the face of the Tibetan fox is not a pie face, and its skull is similar to other foxes, and the reason for its pie face is because of the harsh environment. In the area where it lives, it is very cold, so the hair on its body surface is rough and dense to keep warm, so it also forms the appearance of this pie face.
After talking about the appearance of the Tibetan fox, let's talk about how stupid the Tibetan fox is.
First, can not catch the prey. The Tibetan fox is an omnivore, not all of them carnivores, and most of its prey is highland pikas. The pika is a rodent that lives on the plateau, specializes in digging burrows, feeds on various grasses, and is also the prey of most animals, including the Tibetan fox.
pika
But the pika is extremely flexible, not easy to catch, with the ability of the Tibetan fox can not catch the pika, the pika once hidden in the nest is more difficult to catch, so the Tibetan fox evolved a shoehorn-like face, can put the mouth into the shallow pika nest to pick out some pika that is not hard enough.
Although the Tibetan fox has many prey, the Tibetan fox with poor hunting skills is often hungry, and at this time it will choose to eat the roots of some plants to fill its stomach, which is why it is an omnivorous animal.
Second, there will be no nesting
Tibetan foxes do not build nests, and some people may say that with the sky as the quilt and the earth as the bed, there are more animals that will not build nests. It is true, but those animals that do not nest are almost all top predators, and the powerful ones are certainly not afraid and do not need to build a nest to protect themselves.
Many highland wolves, eagles and even exiled Tibetan mastiffs feed on Tibetan foxes, so Tibetan foxes still need nests to protect themselves. But I didn't learn to build a nest, and my ancestors didn't have this craft! Since you don't have one, then go grab one, marmot is also one of the prey of the Tibetan fox, the difference is that the marmot's cave Tibetan fox can also hide in it, which is simply killing two birds with one stone for the Tibetan fox, not only with food, but also with a cave.
marmot
However, the Tibetan fox generally does not eat marmots, because marmots make their flesh very smelly in order to prevent themselves from being preyed upon, so almost all animals are not interested in marmots.
Third, the alertness is not high
There are only two kinds of animals in the world, one is afraid of people, and the other is not afraid of people. Most of the people who are afraid of it have become extinct, and many people who are afraid of people can still live well in the world.
Many Tibetan foxes are not afraid of people, perhaps they have not felt the horrors of humans, or perhaps they are related to their solitary lives. It is very simple for humans to capture the Tibetan fox, and only a piece of meat + a small trap made by a wire circle can capture a foodie Tibetan fox. Therefore, the number of Tibetan foxes has become precarious, after all, fox fur is very popular with humans, not to mention the warm fur of Tibetan foxes.
However, now the Tibetan fox has become a protected animal, which has also increased the number of such foxes.
I don't know whether it's because of the plateau or because of the environment, but the creatures in this environment seem to be particularly cute.
The first is the lowest pika at the bottom of this biological chain, which is easy to reproduce in large quantities on the plateau, and when there are too many of them, it will cause damage to the vegetation on the plateau and desertify the land. Of course, in addition to eating these plants, the pika will also hoard them as a nest to survive the winter and attract the favor of the opposite sex.
Then there is the same bottom of the marmot, in fact, what we call the marmot, not only does not make an "ah" sound, but even not too afraid of people, because the meat is very smelly, people do not eat, so dare to boldly ask humans for food, is a bandit.
The eagles on the prairie, I don't know what the specific species is, but what I do know is that this eagle can silently approach in the air, pikas and marmots, thus successfully preying. The appearance is not low!
Then there is the upper layer of the pika, the fat cat that feeds on the pika, the rabbit. Although it looks fat, it is actually just a relatively dense hair, feeding on the pika, good at slow movement, and using the same color of the fur and the environment as a camouflage, so as to sneak the pika to succeed.
Finally, there is our walking meme, the "Hidden Fox". After all, the Tibetan fox still belongs to the higher predators, the food of the Tibetan fox is pika, marmot, rabbit, etc. are its prey, no wonder it has a high cold face.
The number of pikas can be said to be very exaggerated, and it will also run to a place far away from the doorstep to eat and collect plants, and too much will make the environment worse, and these predators who hunt pikas can control the number of pikas very well.
This is nature's self-balancing!