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Fox and Squirrel: Characteristics of Fox
Fox is an omnivorous animal, like to eat mandibulates, birds, insects, fruits and other food, although the red fox living in the town will sometimes steal the poultry in the farmhouse, but mainly eat mice or rabbits in the field, can be eliminated for human agricultural pests.
Foxes are usually solitary, but during the breeding season, they will form pairs and can often be seen living together as a family. They are suspicious by nature and will carefully observe a new environment.
If they encounter enemies, they will scurry into other animals or jump into a river for refuge, or they will secrete a foul odor from their anal glands to make the pursuers retreat, or they will even pretend to be dead if they are already caught, and then sneak away when they are not prepared for the attack. The red fox will stop producing the odor if necessary, or it will be able to get away with spreading the odor to the sheep.
Foxes, like any animal, have unique personality traits. Foxes are intelligent, cunning and somewhat lazy at times. These character traits also make many people love the fox as a mysterious and fascinating animal. However, we also need to be aware that the fox itself is a wild animal that needs to be protected so that they can continue to thrive in the ecosystem.
Fox and squirrel: Characteristics of Squirrels
Squirrels are very good at climbing trees, its tail can make it keep its body balance when jumping, and it can also be used as a quilt cover when sleeping, which has the function of keeping warm. Wild squirrels, in order to escape from the capture of eagles, will shed their tails on their own when the eagles catch their tails.
Squirrels, like humans, like to be active during the day, especially in the morning when the air is fresh, especially active, like to use its long big tail hooked on the branches of the tree, and then hanging upside down, but also like to jump between the branches of the tree, just like what you see on TV, sensitive, and then in the evening, it will jump down from the tree, foraging on the ground, to fill up their stomachs.
We often see squirrels like to eat pine nuts, hazelnuts, spruce, fir, acorns, larch and other nuts or seeds are the main, followed by eating some ants, eggs, larvae, insects and other meat. No matter which season is spring, summer, fall and winter, do not have to worry about its food, because its food is very wide, mushrooms, berries, tree buds can also be eaten.
Whenever the leaves fall in the fall, it is the squirrel’s season to store food, they like to prepare enough food, stored in their own nest, and then do not worry about food and drink through the whole warm winter.
In the spring and summer of every year, the squirrels are in heat, lasting about two weeks, and can give birth to three litters a year, and the babies that have just left the nest will be easier to raise if they are separated from their parents.
Differences between fox and squirrel
Foxes have a slender body and long, thick fur. The body length plus tail length is 2 to 3 feet (60 to 90 cm). The fox’s furry tail is half or 2/3 as long as its head and body, with a pointed beak. Most species of foxes have large, erect, triangular ears. Different species of foxes vary in color, even those of the same species. These include red, yellow, light or dark brown, various degrees of gray, white or black.
Foxes have eyes that can adapt to darkness, with oval, glowing pupils, similar to those of cats, which distinguishes foxes from other canids that have round pupils. Foxes have keen senses of sight, smell, and hearing. Most foxes have a pungent odor, emitted by stink glands at the base of the tail.
Squirrels are similar in appearance to mice, small and delicate, but the distinctive feature of squirrels is that they have a long, fluffy, large tail. Foxes are much larger, with a head that is rounder than that of a wolf, and good-looking eyes, similar to those of a cat.
Squirrel, belonging to the rodent order Squirrelidae, refers generally to a large group of rodents with long, fluffy hairs on their tails. Eurasian red squirrels (also known as northern squirrels) widely distributed in the temperate coniferous forests of northern Eurasia is a typical representative of squirrels, but also the familiar image of the prototype squirrel.
The Eurasian red squirrels at the eastern end of the Eurasian continent have black back fur and white belly in winter, and brownish-red fur between gray in summer. The Eurasian red squirrel, which is found in the western end of Eurasia, has brownish-red back fur all year round. Brownish-red between gray is also the main coloration of most squirrels in North American forests. Eurasian red squirrels in the distribution range from east to west of different geographic groups of coat color change is also the history of squirrels from the North American continent of origin, radiation into the Eurasian continent this process of reflection.
A combination of fox and squirrel: the fox squirrel
Moreover, there is another combination of fox and squirrel, the fox squirrel. According to the biological classification, the fox squirrel belongs to the family Squirrelidae, genus Squirrel, belonging to a rooted squirrel.
The fox squirrel is a robust arboreal squirrel with a body length of 26 to 37 centimeters, a tail length of 20 to 33 centimeters, and a weight of 0.5 to 1.4 kilograms. Body color varies by subspecies, mainly brownish-gray to grayish-black, with a white, rusty, or black belly.
Males and females do not differ much in appearance. They have sharp claws, forearm flexors and extensors, and abdominal muscles, are good at climbing and jumping, and have well-developed senses of sight, hearing, and smell, and use scent to communicate with their own kind. They are generally solitary, active during the day, do not hibernate, and live-in oak, pecan and pine forests, burying nuts for the winter, while other foods include tree buds, insects, bird eggs, seeds, fungi, and some crops.