Who is Lisa? As she looks like, where he lives and what feeds, what a habit of it - our message will tell about this.
What is this beast. What Lisa looks like
Fox is a predatory animal, refers to the pet family.
Externally it looks like a medium-sized dog, but there are more cat habits. On its flexible body there is a neat head with a sharp face and movable, always alert, large dark ears, the legs are not sufficient, thin, but strong.
Special attention deserves a fur coat of this beast - it is a magnificent, beautiful, colors are different. Most often there are bright redheads, but there may be black, black and brown, silver. There is such a pattern: in the northern regions of these animals thick and bright, but the farther to the south, the more modest and in the thickness, and in the color. And the tail in the foxes is very beautiful - long, up to 60 cm, fluffy, always with a white tip. On fox hunt only for their valuable fur.
Rumor and vision, scent and touch
A rumor in fox is excellent. She can have a hundred steps to hear mouse rustling in hole, long-range wings and a burdot hare. Its big ears, like locators, determine the sound source very well. Also, Lisa is able to determine the distance from where the sound from it.
This beast has an interesting vision: Falnarish eyes are adapted to notice even the smallest movement of the world, see well in the dark But the chanterelle is badly distinguished by colors, so it can be very close to a faithful person.
She has a good one, but many other animals have a much more sharp little.
Very good in foxes touch has been developed: Softly and sweatily stepping on the ground, leaves or snow, they feel the smallest details with their spring paws. Can find Nora or some legs.
Where live
Lisizers can be found throughout the northern hemisphere of the Earth, even in.
They are rolls with a few outputs and underground tunnels that lead to the nest.
Sometimes there are other people's home, for example, Barcuch holes. Here they bring offspring and are hidden from danger. A lot of time spend a lair in an open space, under a bush, in the grass or snow. Sleep very sensitive.
What are food
A fox - predator, excellent, very fast and deft hunter. From the process of hunting, it gets great pleasure. Her mining is small rodents, moles,. Loves with eggs, eating insects, their larvae, worms, catches fish, crayfish. Hungry time does not happen to Padalu. May diversify the diet with berries and fruit.
By the way, exterminating rodents and beetles, the fox brings great benefit to agriculture.
Reproduction
The marriage of the Fox falls on January-February. After one female, several males, who fight to the blood among themselves, are cane. With the winner of the fox creates a couple. Foxes are good parents. They all make together - digger, they grow offside, getting food.
Pregnancy females last 2 months, at the beginning of spring in Nore 5-7 blind and deaf puppies is born (so called fox's fox). In 2 weeks, the puppies begin to see and hear, they cut the teeth. But one and a half months of the kids do not go out of the hole, feeding with maternal milk. Only in June, Lysali begin to go outside with their parents. They play and frolic in the sun, learn to hunt.
In the middle of autumn fox, leave the family to an independent life. In 2 years, they are already able to multiply.
Types of Lisitz
Total in nature there are more than 20 species These animals. The most common is an ordinary redhead fox. There is also an African, Bengal, gray, sandy, small, Brazilian and other species of foxes.
One of the most interesting - Fenomek. This is a miniature chanterelle with an interesting appearance, in size, she is even smaller than the cat .. Lives in North Africa.
Hobs
Why in all fairy tales of Fox - the intelligent, tricky and insidious, deft and smart? Because it is actually such. You can only wonder how this beast is able to confuse traces, deceive game, pretend and catch. Although it is not worth the fox to attribute some incredible abilities.
The mind and cunning are just the animal instinct, which Nature was given to Lisa to survive.
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Names: ordinary Fox (Lisa), Redhead Fox.
Area: The fox is preserved quite wide and lives almost throughout Europe, Asia, North America, North Africa. Acclimatized in Australia. Some researchers believe that a special kind of kind is found in America ( V. FULVUS), others consider it only as a subspecies of red fox.
Description: A redhead fox has a slender, elegant, a bit elongated torso on low legs. The size of an ordinary fox with a small dog, and from all its total length approximately 40 percent comes with a fluffy tail. They have a slender face, with a white fur on the upper lip, and some individuals have black label labels. Fox ordinary larger than other representatives of the kind, but painting and its size is characterized by a large geographic variability. In general, to the north of the foxes become larger and brighter, south - smaller and dim in painted. There are 14-15 subspecies in Europe, and more than 25 subspecies are known for the rest of the range.
Adults are beginning to lift in February - March (in the north - in March - April) and finally dress in summer fur in the middle of summer. It is almost immediately beginning to develop a winter fur, ripening during the November - December. Summer Fox Fox is rare and short, in it it looks like a major, big and even leggy.
Color: In most cases, the color of the back is bright redhead, with an unclear dark pattern, belly white, but sometimes black. She has a white, gray or slightly drowned, bright chest. The color of the back and sides changes in different places from bright red to gray.
In the northern regions with harsh climatic conditions, black and brown and other melanistical shapes are more common. Susodushki, Hands, Chernoburki are ordinary foxes with deviations from normal coloring. The most beautiful black and brown fur. Such foxes have long been bred on beversers and called silver-black.
In nature, another variety of staining of the fox is occupied - fire. She has red-orange with fiery mug. If you shake it, it seems that the flame pegs. The fires are most often found in Kamchatka, less often in Yakutia and other northeastern regions of Siberia. And very rare - in the European part of Russia. Yes, and the quality of European firewalls is much lower than that of the Yakut and Kamchatka, which on fur auctions often tested their best silver-black congor. Sometimes pure white foxes albinos are born.
The marked diversity of the color and the magnitude of the fox is associated with the vast of its range and the larger differences of the conditions of existence in separate parts.
The size: Body length 60-90 cm, tail - 40-60 cm, shoulder height: 35-40 cm
Weight: from 6 to 10 kg.
Life expectancy: In the wild, the fox rarely live more than seven years, while in captivity they live to 20-25 years.
During the gone or in the state of excitement, the fox makes a rather loud, fierce barking, like a tovkanya. Straightening or crowned beasts piercing squeezed. By votes, you can distinguish the male from the female: so the female makes the triple "take up" and finishes it with a short time, and the male is doing this, but it gets more often and more, on the dog's manner.Habitat: Fox inhabits all landscape-geographical zones, ranging from tundra and forests up to the steppes and deserts, including mountains. The ordinary fox prefers an open area, as well as those areas where there are separate groves, armor, as well as hills and ravines, especially if in winter snow cover there is not too deep and loose. It avoids only a deaf taiga, multiserry districts and deserts, so in the territory of our country, the most foxes live in the forest-steppes, steppes and foothills of the European and Asian parts.
At the same time, the fox is found not only in the wild, but also in cultural landscapes, including the nearest surroundings of villages and cities, including large industrial centers. Moreover, sometimes in the mastery of the area of \u200b\u200bthe locacy Fox finds especially favorable atmosphere. So, in some areas of England, they completely mastered extensive agricultural land together with settlements, and began to "settle" cities, upholstered even in the center of a huge London! They live in parks, feed on landfills, arrange holes under various buildings. Because of its uncleanness in Birmingham, the foxes began to bother with antisanitarian people, forcing the city's veterinary service with the help of hunters to catch more than a hundred foxes and take them to remote forests, but it turned out that after a while they began to return to the city in the places they were in favor.
Enemies: The natural enemies can be attributed to those who live on the same territory of wolves and some other major predators. Previously, hunters killed in huge amounts of fox, with the aim of preventing natural foci foci. However, widespread use, both in North America and Europe, the oral vaccine eliminated the need for such radical measures as a solid fox shoot.
Food: Fox, although it belongs to typical predators, feeds on the most diverse food. Among the feeds eating more than 300 species of animals alone, not counting several dozen species of plants. However, after all, the basis of its nutrition is small rodents, mainly mice and voles, constituting in the amount of about three quarters of their diet. Larger mammals, in particular hares, play an incomparably smaller role, although in some cases foxes catch them. Sometimes foxes attack the little young roe. Birds in nutrition Fox are not so important as rodents, although the predator will never miss the case to catch any of them, producing on Earth (ranging from the smallest to the largest - geese, degrades, etc.), as well as destroy masonry and chicks. In the southern regions of Europe, the foxes often produce reptiles; in the Far East, living near the rivers, they feed the salmon fish, dead after spawning; Fish, crayfish, caught in shallow water, and seaside seaside - they choose all sorts of emissions of the sea: from mollusks to large mammals. In the summer months, almost ubiquitous fox willingly eat a lot of beetles and other insects. After rains in a set collects rainworms. Finally, in the period of the Hare Mora, their corpses and other all sorts of pallets eat, and in the hungry time - and various garbage. Vegetable food - fruits, fruits, berries, less often vegetative parts of plants - are part of the food hardly not all foxes. Finding an unlocked soy field, it feeds on it.
In general, the nature of the food and the species composition of the feed is highly different, not only in various geographic areas, but also in individuals of related populations inhabiting unequal habitats.
Behavior: Fox hunt usually at dusk and at night, you can see them most often in winter and in the summer, when the offspring is growing up. At this time, the fox enjoys a nora, the rest prefers to relax in the open place - underly, in the ravine, on the Xena Copper. According to behavior, old and young foxes are not much different, except for young more bugles and less experienced in the extraction of large game. If there are many mice, then hunt most often at night and on zory. Favoring, with dawn goes to the forest, densely overgrown ravines and other secluded places, where and rest all day.
If the fields and meadows rich in mice-like rodents are located a few kilometers from the forest, then many foxes, especially young, fall on the day in the meadows, choosing a small tubercle near the lonely bush. Before you lie down, the redhead is a lot of loops, and sometimes it makes jumps to the side, knocking on the grass or another place where her trail will not immediately find. Having reached the scene, the fox first sits like sculpture, carefully examining the surrounding area. After making sure that there is no danger, and twisted on the spot, it will turn around the eagle and falls the nose to the trail, closing the tail of the abdomen, legs and even his head. After some time, it will raise his head, listening and again looking around the district. Repeating this operation several times, finally falls asleep. In the forest, the Lisitsa falls on the clearing, a burgger and also with such a calculation so that she has a review.
The usual manner of her movement is a leisurely arrow. Calmly walking fox should be in a straight line, leaving a clear chain of traces on the snow. Often the fox goes to step, stops, examining around. Despite the short legs, the fox runs very tightly and from the pursuit rapidly goes big jumps, a gallop or literally splashing over the ground and far stretching the tail that not every dog \u200b\u200bis capable of catching up. As for dexterity, she successfully catches the beetles flying over it. When taking mining, it is completely merged with the terrain and, as it were, crawling on a belly.
The fox moving calmly goes in a straight line, leaving behind a clear chain of traces. The frightened animal can run very quickly, gallop or literally splashing over the ground, stretching completely tail. From the senses in the fox, the most developed sense of smell and hearing; Vision is much less developed - therefore, for example, a fox can be very close to a fixedly sitting or standing person with a windy side. During the gone and simply in a state of excitement, the fox publishes a ripple loud bark; Foxes, when fighting, piercing squeezed. According to the voice of the female and the male, the female makes the triple "wake up", ending with a short time, the male barks on the dog's manner, without being. Many foxes, especially young, fall on the day in the field, if it is located near the forest and richly rodents. Before you get under a bush or a tubercle, a fox, frozen in place, long examines the surroundings for danger. Then rolls up with a hacker, sticking his nose and paws with a tail, but before you fall asleep, he looks around the county several times. Lisers also love to rest in thick thickets, ravines and other hard-to-reach places. Lisers hunt at different times of the day, preferring, however, early morning and late evening, and where they are not pursued, they will occur during the day, and not attending anxiety when meeting with a person. Otherwise, these animals are distinguished by extreme caution and amazing ability to renounce and shoot down from the track by chase - that is why in the folklore of many nations Flimica is the incarnation of tricks and dexterity (Japanese Spirit - Werewolf Kitsune, European - Verfuks). Foxes living near the tourist trail, boarding houses, in places where the hunt is prohibited, quickly get used to the presence of a person, it is easy to fasten and can be engaged in begging. It is assumed that foxes have a sense of magnetic field.
In the darkness of a moonless night
Fox is sprinkled on the ground,
Smears ripe melon.
Basso
Though foxand being echorated, but still its diet consists of the most diverse food. Lisa is almost omnivorous.
In whatever conditions, it was not a fox, she will always have to find a meal and adapt to the environment and human activity. At the same time, they show amazing perseverance and ingenuity. That is why foxes and are common everywhere from the arctic to tropical latitudes, live in a wide variety of conditions and geographical zones.
Red predatory
Foxes Do not limit yourself to any single dish, they can feed animals more than three hundred different types. The main part of the diet is mouse-pools, gopters and other small rodents. Therefore, it is believed that the foxes bring significant benefits for agriculture, reducing the number of pests.
Much less often, luck accompanies the fox in the Hunt for game Biggle, such as hares. Hares occupy a small share in the nutrition of the foxes, although the predators do not miss the case to enjoy long legs and often catch it. And when there comes a hare, then they do not eat and drums.
A smaller role in comparison with rodents in nutrition Fox is played by birds, although Lisa will never miss the chance to enhance any flying down the bird as small and large, does not bypass the side and masonry of eggs, small chicks, ruins the nests.
In common opinion, foxes love to visit chicken copies for poultry, but it happens much less often than it is customary to think, predators for this forcing hunger when it is not possible to get another food. Data raids bring much less harm compared to the benefit from reducing the number of rodents of foxes.
Profoving
In winter, most of the food sources disappear, flies to the south, falls asleep deep in the holes, there are practically no vegetable food, and then the fox will always have the available rowing mice. In winter, often on the field can be seen as a red-haired predator performs the intricate dance. This is a thinking.
Hearing and taking into account the nesting of the voles, begins to dance in one place, bouncing on the hind legs and with a force hitting in the snow or earth with the front. Next, she remains to catch frightened runners out of holes. Sometimes she sweeps up in the snow with a fruit and may fall under the snow until half the body. Each such nodders is awarded the presence of mining in the mouth of the fox.
Not meat one
In the southern part of Europe, the foxes often produce with small reptiles, in the Far East and in Canada, living along the rivers, they seasonally feed the fish of salmon rocks, which threw ashore after spawning. Fox with pleasure and deftly hunting in the summer on beetles and other insects and quite a lot of them eaten. These foxes bring great favor to the forest and agriculture: bypassing the May beetles and their larvae, they hold the number of beetles within the normal range. Behind the May beetles, they love to chase lisate, honing their skills and catching favorite delicacy. I will not lose sight of Lisa and the gazeing fisherman, or rather, its network with fish.
Finally, the foxes for the absence of the best one do not face various Padalu, but in the hungry time - and all sorts of garbage. Then you can see them close near the garbage, noise, though, they do it not as often as people.
And for dessert
The ability of the fox to fall into the most different foods firmly entered the folklore.
Putting food almost all foxes eat, especially in the southern territories. When the fruits have almost matured
Fox: description, structure, characteristic. What does Fox look like?
Fox - a predatory mammal, refers to the pet family, that is, a distant relative, like a wolf and a home dog.
The size of the fox depends on its type and varies from 18 cm (at the smallest fox itself - phenka) to 90 cm. The weight of foxes is also changing - from 0.7 to 10 kg. All foxes are allocated by a special generic sign - an elongated body stretched, but with short limbs.
And in any decent fox in the presence of a fluffy tail. This most fluffy tail of the fox is not for beauty only created by nature, but also serves practical purposes, he acts as a stabilizer during running, and in winter cold can additionally warm his hostess. The length of the fox's tail depends on its type, on average it is 40-60 cm.
A rumor in the fox, as well as the sense of smell is well developed, it is on them that these animals are first relying during the hunt. As for the vision, it is also well developed, moreover, adapted for a night lifestyle and allows you to see well in the dark. But only the only drawback of the fox is the moment that it is not able to recognize colors. In grazing, the fox has 42 tooth, with the exception of a fox, which has a whole tooth as much as 48.
The body of the fox is covered with red wool, the thickness of this hairproof depends on the type of fox and its habitat, and may also vary depending on the time of year. So, for example, in the foxes inhabitants in the harsh environments, for the winter time, the fur becomes thick and lush, in the summer, the fox fox decreases.
Where Lisa lives
Foxes live on a wide geographical area, they can be found in the forests of Europe, Asia, North America, North Africa and even Australia. Live foxes and in our Ukrainian forests. From human eyes, foxes are often covered in nonorahs, which either dig themselves, or they do not break them to pick up from other animals. You can also meet them in the caves and even large vapors of trees.
What feeds fox in nature
What does fox eat in his forest? As we have already written above Fox - a predatory beast and food for her serve a different smaller living creature - various rodents (field mice, horses), hares, birds, nesting on Earth. I do not face Fox and Padalu, as well as overtakes after other predators (wolves, bears), especially if it happens in winter when you catch fresh living creatures more problematic.
Fox residents living in the steppe areas can use different large insects (beetles, termites, locust), frogs. If there is a river nearby, then Fox will not miss the opportunity to enjoy fish. In the summer, the Lysitz menu varies with different fruits, berries, fruits, as like bermen, foxes are omnivorous animals.
Interesting fact: during the hunt, Lisa can develop speed up to 50 km per hour.
Lifestyle foxes
Foxes lead, as a rule, a nightlife, hiding in the afternoon in their holes, and leaving at night to hunt. This contributes to the peculiarity of their vision, which allows you to see perfectly at night.
Lisa lives, as a rule, one single, sometimes two-three and have their own territory, which is marked by their excrement.
How many Lisa lives
The life expectancy of the fox in natural conditions on average ranges from 3 to 10 years, although in the Lisa Zoo can live and up to 25 years. This difference is due to the fact that older foxes cannot be as successfully hunted in natural conditions.
Fox enemies
In nature, the fox is not so many enemies, some danger can come from the same wolves and bears, but only if the fox by negligence will encroacitate their prey. And so, then the most important enemy of fox (like many other animals) is the most dangerous predator - a person. Many foxes were exterminated by hunters and poachers for the sake of their fluffy fur, which subsequently goes to fur coats.
Why Lisa Schitrai
Why is the fox called cunning? Some believe that such a bad reputation attached due to the habits of these animals during the hunt. The fact is that Lisa is always very slyly sinking to its prey, it may be patiently karable in an ambush near the bold holes, and when potential mining appears in sight, it is also very deft and lightning it with her teeth.
In addition to this fox, excellent craftsmen intimidate traces and leave the persecution, dramatically changing the direction of movement, for sure, thanks to these skills, the epithet "Sly" attached to the Lisera.
Species of foxes, photos and titles
In nature, there are several basic types of foxes, and below we describe more than each of them.
She is a redhead fox, is the most popular and at the same time the largest representative of the Fox family. The weight of the fox of the ordinary reaches up to 10 kg, the length of the body together with the tail - 150 cm. The color of the red fox, although it is a red, but may have many different shades, depending on the place of residence of the fox, the characteristic difference in this type of fox, is the presence of a white tip on The end of the tail and black over the ears. Lisa Lisa live throughout Europe, Asia, North Africa, North America, Australia.
The American Fox dwells solely on the territory of the American continent in the southwestern states of the United States and in the north of Mexico. It has medium sizes: the length of its body ranges from 37 to 50 cm. The back of this type of fox is painted in yellowish gray tones. A characteristic feature of American fox is the presence of a black tip on the tail.
Also known as Bukhara, Belukhistan fox, is a relatively small representative of its species, its length does not exceed 0.5 meters, and weight varies from 1.5 to 3 kg. Among other foxes, Afghan Lisa stands out for its large ears having up to 9 cm height. The wool color of this fox has a rich brown-gray color. It lives in Afghanistan and neighboring countries. Also found in Egypt, OAU, Turkmenistan.
The African Fox in its appearance is very similar to the foxes ordinary, the only one, it is several times smaller in size. Her length does not exceed 70-75 cm, and the weight has an average of 3.5-3.6 kg. Another difference from the foxes of the ordinary is the presence of longer legs and ears. It lives in many countries in Africa.
It is an Indian fox, usually medium size, the maximum length is 60 cm. Wool in Bengalis Fox is short and united, has a red-brown or sand-brown color. It lives in India, in the foothills of Himalayas, Bangladesh, Nepal.
Steppe Fox (Corsac)
This fox is also very similar to the fox of an ordinary, but unlike it has even more pointed face, longer legs and wider ears. But less than the size of the body is 0.5-0.6 m, and the weight is 4-6 kg. It has a brighter wool color and a dark or dark brown color tip. Steppe fox lives in many countries, starting from the southeastern Europe to Asia, including in Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Azerbaijan.
This kind of fox can boast wide ears and no less wide legs with special pads that protect the fox from hot sand with thick fur cover. Pale brown color of the sand fox serve it to the same excellent disguise on the background of sand and stones, where it lives. The dimensions of this fox are average - the length is 89-90 cm, the weight is 3.5-3.6 kg. Sand fox in the deserts of North Africa, from Morocco and Egypt to Somalia.
He has a brown or flame-red back color, turning into the light gray color of the sides. This fox lives in the Tibetan Plateau, is also found in India, Nepal and China. Its length is 60-70 cm, weight - up to 5 kg.
Feneke
Fenek is notable for the fact that it is the smallest fox in the world, the length of its body is only 40 cm, and the weight up to 1.5 kg. Despite the smallest sizes in the Fenca's Lisinia, the biggest ears among all the foxes, their length reaches up to 15 cm. Feathers live like sandy foxes in the deserts of North Africa, and their paws also have special protective pads that protect their owners from redheads on the sandy sand. I have red color, the tip of the tail is black.
Despite the name of the ears, she is not so big as Fenquee, nevertheless, the ears of this fox are disproportionately large and reach 13 cm. The fox becomes a gray-yellow color with white, yellow or brown spots. The characteristic difference of this species is the presence of 48 teeth (all other foxes are only 42). This fox in South and East Africa lives.
Fox breeding
How does the fox be reproduced? Like its distant relatives, foxes are monogamous animals, whose marriage occurs during a certain period of the year. Its time depends on the type of fox, but, as a rule, it lasts from December to March. To create offspring and his learning, male and fox female for a while form a full-fledged pair.
The pregnancy of female fox depending on her form lasts from 48 to 60 days, after which small foxes are born, in one brood there are from 4 to 16 kids, which are like kittens are born blind and only they subsequently cut out eyes.
For a month and a half after the birth of kids are on breastfeeding, only after that, when they begin to cut the first teeth, the mother of Lisa gradually begins to tame them to meat food, and then to its prey. For this, Mom Fox teaches their hunting on different small insects, beetles, frogs. After a few months, Lysalia is already dramatically increasing in size, and in a year they are completely leaving their parents completely ready for independent life in the forest.
Sexual maturity in foxes comes to the second year of life.
Lisa at home: content and care
If you are looking for extravagance, instead of familiar or dogs, you can get at home and fox, it is important only to remember that the content of these animals has a number of rules:
- The cell for the fox must necessarily be spacious so that it can do the lair there.
- Also in the cell necessarily there must be a drink, so that the fox do not have thirst.
- You can and need to be trained with the fox, so it will not be bored and can quickly attach to their masters, like a dog, another far-relative.
- However, aggressive games with fox are not recommended, it can bite.
- In the summer period, fox can highlight a very strong and unpleasant smell, simply say to stink, so that they will need to be bathed at least once every two weeks.
- It is very important when the fox is kept at home to have a good veterinarian, which will make a regular inspection of your unusual pet.
Than feeding fox at home
As for nutrition, the foxes can be completely fed by a dog food, the truth is only the highest grade, chicken meat, beef or fish. In general, in nutrition, they are not very whims.
- In some nations in antiquity, it is foxes that the skins served as money.
- The fact that the fox is a frequent hero of many fairy tales is not news for anyone, but it is interesting that in ancient Mesopotamia she was worshiped as a sacred animal.
- In medieval Japan, the fox sometimes was considered the most real island.
- The rumor of the fox is so strong that she can hear the peak of the field mouse at a distance of 100 meters.
- You may read this article using the browser "Mozilla Firefox", the symbol of which is our today's heroine - Fox.
Fox, video
And at the end of an interesting documentary about foxes from the Animal Planet channel.
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