What is a fox like?

The fox is slim, with long hair and a certain thickness. The fox's body length and tail length are about 0.6~0.9 meters. The furry tail is nearly half the length of the whole body. The long tail can help them keep their balance, and the tail tip has white hair, which can confuse and disturb the enemy's sight. Fox has long legs and runs fast, with a top speed of about 50 kilometers per hour.

Many kinds of foxes have large, upright ears, which are triangular and pointed, and can accurately locate sounds. In addition, the fox's vision and hearing are also sensitive. Eyes and pupils are oval and shiny, and they can be seen clearly in the dark. Most foxes have a pungent smell, which is emitted by the smelly glands at the root of their tails.

The coat color of foxes varies from species to species. Even foxes of the same species have different coat colors, such as red, yellow, light brown, dark brown and various degrees of gray, white or black.

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Different foxes have different morphological characteristics, and the common types are:

1, blue fox

Arctic fox, alias white fox. Blue foxes are mainly distributed in countries along the Arctic Ocean, with short snout, short limbs, round and thick body, rich fur and wide and round ears. The blue fox is 60-70 cm long. The tail is 25-30 cm long and has 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 blue to dark brown.

2. Silver black fox

The coat of silver-black fox is basically black, with silver hair evenly distributed all over the body, and the buttocks are silver heavy, gradually fading to the front neck and head, and the black gradually increases. Needle hair is divided into three color segments, black at the base, black at the tip and white at the middle; The fluff is grayish brown.

The coat color of the nose and mouth, behind the ears, abdomen and limbs of the silver-black fox is black. Silver-haired black fox has silver hair around its mouth and eyes, and a circle of silver hair on its face forms a silver ring.

The tail hair is also taupe, the needle hair is the same as the back, and the tail tip is pure white. The silver-black fox has high legs, thin waist, thick and long tail, long nose and sunken eye sockets. When it becomes a fox, its eyes are big and bright, and its ears stand upright. The average weight of male foxes is 5.8 ~ 7.8 kg, and the body length is 66 ~ 75 cm. The female fox weighs 5.2 ~ 7.2 kg and is 62 ~ 70 cm long.

3. Red Fox

Also known as red fox and grass fox, it is widely distributed in China and has four subspecies. Red foxes in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia belong to red foxes. The appearance of red fox is characterized by slender upper and lower jaws, nose and mouth, upright ears, slender body, long tail, long hair, thick fur, smooth fur color, complete needle hair and excellent fur quality.

The coat color of the back can be fiery red, brownish red and grayish red, the limbs and ears are dark brown, the abdomen is yellowish white, the tail tip is white, and the young fox is light grayish brown.

4, color fox

In the process of fox breeding, new coat color mutant individuals appear constantly. People call the new color variation fox produced by the mating of red fox, Arctic fox, silver fox, red fox and color variation fox as color fox. In addition to their own color characteristics, colored foxes of the genus Fox are very similar to red foxes and silver-black foxes in appearance and appearance.

5.arctic fox

Slightly smaller than the silver fox, fat, short legs, short and thick mouth, small, wide and round ears. The coat is rich and dense. Feet and palms have thick hair, which can adapt to the cold climate. The coat color of wild arctic fox ranges from deep blue to pure white, and it is varied. The blue type of arctic fox is blue fox, and its body color is blue all year round.

The more common blue types are dark gray and brownish Alaska blue fox and slightly lighter polar arctic fox. Some of the blue foxes cultivated today are descendants of these two kinds of blue foxes. The arctic fox is white in winter and gray in summer.

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