one of the most known representatives of the dog-good carnivores is it far over Eurasia and North America represented red-fox into numerous subtypes.
Shape The red-fox possesses one very much spitzschnauzigen head and a stretched one, on short legs of resting bodies, that body-reach almost half in one, bushy tail finishes. it possesses big, standing ears and oval pupils.
Habitat The red-fox virtually populates all habitats, that only guarantee it its living somehow, and where it finds moderately suitable shelter-places. For the installation of its constructions, the red-fox prefers forests with not too firm grounds. If possibly, it puts the entrance of the cave so that the hole is met a part of the day of direct sun-radiation at least. The fox likes to live in also badger-constructions, in which it rarely doesn't live with the original builder together. One often meets badger in extensive construction-installations, that are to be also usually led back on a badger, fox, cats, rabbits and occasionally also stone-codgers and Brandenten together at, without them striving each other after the life. To the building site and its immediate surroundings seems to prevail something like a "castle-peace." At the reproductive-time, two or more Fähen rarely don't toss in one and the same construction and raises the boys together.
Way of life Red-foxes are very location-loyal and often live in the same area and the same holes, that the females enlarge by a new residential-kettle before every new throw, generation-long; so, they create extensive residential-castles in the course of time.
Reproduction January and February drop the Ranzzeit of the red-foxes into the months. After typical combination in dog-type (Hundeartige) and subsequent "hillsides" brings the Fähe 3-6 (in a maximum 11, in the average however 4-5) mole-big ones after 51-52 days in March until April, hazel until slate-gray boy to the world, that on average 8-10 weeks will suckle. The boys heavy in the birth 80-105 g are initially blind and open the eyes after 12-14 days. The male dog takes part in the Jungenaufzucht and tows food along, that it hands over to the Fähe in some distance of the cave. In immediate proximity of the boys, it doesn't tolerate it, at least initially. If the mother dies during the Jungenaufzucht, the male dog looks after the boys further if they are accustomed already to solid food.
Nutrition The food of the foxes consists of damaging Nagern to the largest part so that the benefit of these animals, that cannot be curtailed also by its occasional encroachments on pets, is extraordinarily high relating to this. The red-fox, like also many jackals, carries off birds by overpowering totstellt and then the unsuspecting birds for itself. This quality often was taken it for conscious cunning and brought it the reputation of the extremely brainy and sly animal. Relating to this, "Reineke sprains fox" the gold-jackal (jackals) from the fairy-tales of the Orient, for which the "Wesir of the king (= lion)" is called there, in our fables. However, the fox is less consciously sly in reality as rather shy and aware. it escapes its enemies through the escape in time and constantly observes its surroundings with its extraordinarily fine senses.
Rabies-carriers As valuable the red-fox is in our environment as last natural Regulant, so however it attained also a sad meaning. After the extensive extermination of the wolf in our fauna, the fox is the most important carrier of this for the people and animals of so dangerous rabies. it becomes bejagt, on waidmännische and less waidmännische type, for this reason at all costs. Particularly the Begasung of the constructions always leads also to the death of the other co-inhabitants, like badger and polecat, unfortunately. Despite the excessive Bejagung, the continuance of the foxes seems to be endangered not. It has the appearance that the number of the reared boys increases, the more strongly is tried to reduce the stock of alto-animals.
Meanwhile, one tries to get a grip on the problem with the rabies, in that one immunizes the foxes with a "gulp-vaccination" so to speak, in that one impregnated baits lays out and hopes that they are eaten by the foxes.
Enemies Besides the human being, the fox has to hardly still fear an animal as a real enemy today, after was exterminated by the human being finished manner being possible. Eagles, lynxes and wolves are hardly still represented in our wildlife so that the human being has to attribute the unchecked increase of the fox to itself in the end even.
Lautgebung In the fight with opponents the fox lets a loud Keckern often heard how we know it also from jackals. Also otherwise, the red-foxes belong to the voice-more joyful Hundeartigen, that have various lute in its expression-repertoire to the disposal.
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