Foxes – very beautiful animals who it is characterized as extremely cunning beings. These lines of their character which pass from father to son have allowed animals to live up to our times. If you really are interested in these animals, then especially for you we have prepared the interesting facts about foxes.
Foxes – lonely animals
Foxes treat family of canids, and it means that their relatives are wolves, jackals, dogs. They have the average sizes (a little less average size of a domestic dog), and weight fluctuates from 3 to 6,5 kg. Also especially distinguishing line of the woods is their fluffy tail.
But unlike the relatives foxes don't live packs. At education of the cubs the fox lives the small family called "eyeliners of foxes" in underground holes. Otherwise, they hunt and sleep alone.
Foxes have much in common with cats
As well as cats, foxes the most active at night. Thanks to unique sight these animals well are guided in a night-time. They even hunt similarly, as well as cats.
And it only one of a set of similarities. As well as kut, the woods have sensitive hairs and prickles on language. They move also similarly, having elegant gait. Foxes also have "sliding" claws which help them to climb trees and even to get on roofs of houses. Some foxes even sleep on trees also as well as cats.
The red fox is the most widespread look
Red foxes can be met in a set of corners of the world (from Arctic Circle to North Africa and from Central America to Asian steppes). At the same time the native habitat of these animals represents the mixed landscapes of bushes and woods. Such wide population of this species of foxes is caused by their flexible diet.
Foxes use a magnetic field of Earth
As guided missiles, foxes use a magnetic field of Earth that hunts. The same abilities are also other animals, such as sharks, turtles, some bird species, but foxes still only of them use the abilities to catch the victim. According to New Scientist, the fox can see a magnetic field of Earth as "a shadow ring" on her eyes which darkens when the animal goes to the magnetic North. When the shadow and a sound the victim create the line - it is time to snatch on her. Here fox in operation:
Foxes are good parents
One more interesting fact about foxes is their care of posterity. Foxes breed once a year, but, at the same time, are born at them from 1 to 11 cubs (on average 6). Cubs are born blind people, eyes open at them in nine days after the birth. During this time they remain with a fox (female) in a hole while foxes (male) brings them food. Little young foxes live up to seven months with parents. Females protect the cubs with surprising fidelity.
Foxes are very playful
Foxes, as we know, are very friendly and curious. They like to play among themselves, and also with other animals, such as cats and dogs. Also foxes adore balls which they often steal from golf courses. In spite of the fact that foxes – wild animals, but at them are very good relations with people. In 2011 researchers have found a grave which was on a cemetery in Jordan and is dated more than 16500 summer age. Archeologists have found in a grave remains of the person and his pet – foxes. It was 4000 years before the first famous person and a dog have been buried together.
You can buy the cultivated fox
In 1960 - е years, the Soviet geneticist Dmitry Belyaev was engaged in studying of foxes and has removed more than one thousand individuals before reaching domestication of foxes. In difference from the tamed woods which have learned to suffer people the cultivated foxes are obedient to people from the birth. Today you can buy a domestic fox for $9000 (or about this sum).
Polar foxes don't freeze even at-70 Celsius
The polar fox living in the regions of Arctic Circle is capable to maintain cold better, than the majority of other animals. They don't freeze even then when temperature falls to a mark of-70 degrees Celsius. Their white fur helps to mask from predators, but with change of seasons of their "coat" also changes in color (darkens). It allows them to mix up with stones and dirt of the tundra.
Species of foxes which can hear insects
The macrotous fox so is called not only thanking their 5-inch ears, but also because they use the hearing as bats to hear insects. When there comes night these foxes leave in African to a shroud to begin "to listen the victims". The most part of their diet I make termites. Besides, macrotous foxes often does the houses in the termitnikiakh.
Foxes can make a set of sounds
The last and, probably, the most interesting fact about foxes – their ability to make sounds. These animals can reproduce about 40 various sounds, but the most amazing of them is shout.
