Information about the red fox

 

Information about the red fox

 

About the red fox: 

 The red fox is a fox that belongs to the carnivorous order and the canid family.

It is also known as just the fox since it is the most common type of fox, Especially in Britain and Ireland, where there is no longer any wild type of canid other than it. 

The red fox spreads across diverse and vast regions of the world, making it the most widespread carnivore on the face of the Earth.

Information about the red fox

It spreads across Canada, Alaska, most of the United States, Europe, and North Africa, 

Almost all parts of Asia, including Japan, it was introduced to Australia in the nineteenth century.  Red foxes, as their name suggests, are distinguished by their fur, which ranges in color from reddish-brown to rusty red.

There is also a silver pattern for these animals in some cases 

Many of these silver foxes were domesticated to obtain their fur used to make precious coats.

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 Description :

 The red fox is considered the largest species of fox belonging to the genus of true foxes, as an adult fox can weigh between 2.7 and 6.8 kilograms (6 - 15 pounds), 

However, this varies from one region to another.

The foxes of Canada and Alaska are larger than the foxes of Britain, which in turn are larger than the foxes of the southern United States،  The size of the fox can be estimated by looking at the size of the traces of its legs, which are usually 4.4 centimeters (1¾ inches) wide and 5.7 centimeters (2¼ inches) long،  The distance between the fox's steps when it runs is between 13 and 15 inches.  Red foxes are sexually dimorphic animals, as males are larger than females and weigh 15% more%.

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 The relationship of the species to the environment around it:

 Red foxes are found in several types of habitats.

They can live in meadows, scrublands, and forests of various types of forests،  It is considered adapted to living south of the Arctic Circle, but it may be found in some areas in the far north sometimes, where it competes with the polar fox for housing in the tundra.  These foxes have also become adapted to living in the suburbs of cities and even the cities themselves in some parts of Europe and North America, where they compete for food with stray domesticated cats and raccoons who have adapted to live in these  Environments too.

How does red foxes protect?

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 Diet:

 Red foxes are largely carnivorous animals, and invertebrates such as insects, molluscs, earthworms, and shrimp make up most of their diet.

These animals also eat some fruits such as berries, grapes, apples, peaches, and others.

 The vertebrates that feed on them include rodents (such as mice and transplant mice), rabbits, birds, eggs, amphibians, small reptiles, and fish.

  Red foxes are known to kill elk shells, and in Scandinavia, fox predation is the main reason behind the death of many newly born roe deer shells, In Palestine and Lebanon, these foxes prey on young mountain deer to a large extent, which controls their numbers and prevents them from increasing intensively.

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Relationship with other predators: 

The gray fox is considered the most common type of fox in North America, along with the red fox.

Both species live in different habitats.

The red fox prefers sparsely populated plateau areas with scattered forests, swamps, and streams, 

While the gray fox is found in areas of scrub trees, swamps, and rugged mountains.  Smaller gray foxes dominate their red relatives in the areas inhabited by both species due to their greater hostility, 

In contrast, red foxes are more aggressive than polar foxes and can dominate and compete with them for burrows and limited food in the north.

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 Behavior:

 The behavior of the red fox varies depending on the environment in which it inhabits, say researchers David W.  MacDonald and Claudio Celero Zuberi in The Biological Properties and Conservation of Wild Canids argue that any two different populations of red foxes can behave so differently that they are two different species.  The red fox is generally active at dusk and tends to be nocturnal in areas where there is a lot of human activity, such as populated areas with electric lighting, The red fox is a solitary hunter, and if it hunts more game than it needs, it will store excess food in holes in the ground to eat it later. 

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 Reproduction habits: 

The breeding period of red foxes varies greatly between different populations due to the large expansion of the habitat of this species.

Southern populations reproduce during the months of December to January, and central populations from January to February, While the North reproduces during February to April.  Females have an annual menstrual cycle that lasts between one and 6 days, and intercourse is noisy and short in duration, usually not exceeding more than 20 seconds, Although the female may mate with many males (who fight with each other to obtain the right to mate), she only settles and inhabits one male.

Males feed the females throughout their pregnancy until after birth, after which the male leaves his female alone with the puppies in the burrow, which in this case is called a "nursery burrow", The abdomen usually consists of five dhabis, but their number may sometimes reach approximately 13 dhabis, 

Puppies are born blind and weigh approximately 150 grams (0.33 ounces). 

They open their eyes after two weeks and take their first steps out of the burrow when they reach five weeks, then are completely weaned after ten weeks.

 Puppies become independent from their mothers in the fall of the same year to control their own territory.

Red foxes reach sexual maturity when they reach ten months of age, and they live for three years in the wild in total,

In captivity, it may reach the age of 12 years.

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The relationship of gender to humans:

 The red fox has a negative and positive view at the same time from humans, and this is clearly evident in Britain, especially where hunting foxes with dogs was a traditional sport that was sometimes licensed to purify the species, 

That is, to hunt sick, old, or defective foxes and keep healthy individuals to produce a healthy population 

However, this has been illegal in Scotland since August 2002 and in England and Wales since February 2005.  The fox appears in many British and popular folklore novels around the world, often as a cunning villain or a helpless poor man, but it always overcomes human attempts to catch or control him.

 

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