How many colors do foxes have?

Foxes have four colors, blue, black, white and red. The species are: 1, blue fox, also known as arctic fox, mainly distributed in high latitudes of Eurasia and northern North America. Blue fox has a short nose and wide and round ears. There are two basic coat colors, one is white in winter and the other is dark in other seasons; The other is usually light blue, but the coat color changes greatly, from light yellow to dark brown.

Foxes belong to Carnivora, Canidae and Foxes. In broad taxonomy, animals belonging to "big-eared fox" and "gray fox" are also classified as "foxes".

When people talk about foxes, they have negative impressions, such as "Fox Fairy" and "Fox Fairy". They are cunning, suspicious and have practiced for thousands of years, but this is because ancient people did not understand the habits of animals.

Fearing that the fox must be a god, the rulers used this to fabricate the image of the fox as a fairy and a spirit, advocated offering sacrifices to the fox spirit and building a fox spirit temple, and some wizards even performed purification ceremonies in the name of possessing the fox spirit. Over time, the superstition related to foxes has gradually taken root in people's hearts.

Living in modern society, we can't follow the crowd. We should understand foxes from a scientific and biological point of view. This paper will introduce several representative foxes and their characteristics and habits.

"Red fox" usually recognizes the fox or the fox protagonist in folk stories, usually referring to the red fox, also known as Firefox.

The life span of the red fox is about 14 years old, which is regarded as a long-lived animal among canines.

It is 70 cm long (the largest fox in the world) and its tail is about 20-40 cm. Except the abdomen and tail tip are white, the legs and ear tips are black, and other parts of the body are reddish brown, which is the origin of the "red" fox.

Distribution and Habitat Red foxes are widely distributed in almost the whole northern hemisphere, such as North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa. Red fox is the most widely distributed carnivore. Red fox has a strong adaptability to the environment, which is found in mountains, plains, forests, grasslands, deserts and human towns.

The European subspecies red fox was introduced to Australia in the1850s, which had a negative ecological impact on Australian native species and was listed as one of the world's 100 invasive species.

Habits, behaviors, eating habits

Foxes are omnivores and like to eat teeth, birds, insects, fruits and other foods. Although red foxes living in towns sometimes steal farm poultry, they mainly eat mice or rabbits in the fields, which can eliminate agricultural pests for human beings.

sociality

Usually they live alone, but in the breeding season they will flock in pairs, and it is often seen that foxes live together.

Defensive skills are inherently suspicious. When you arrive at a new environment, you will observe it carefully first. If the enemy hurts them, they will jump on other animals or take refuge in the river, or the anal glands will secrete stench, so that the pursuers will stay away. If you have been caught, you will even pretend to be dead, and then sneak away when people are unprepared. Some hounds will follow the stench secreted by anal glands to search for red foxes, and if necessary, red foxes will stop secreting stench, or lead tigers away from mountains to infect sheep.