Is the red fox in Daxing'anling protected animals? What does it look like? How many are there now?

Red fox generally refers to red fox, generally brown yellow or brown red on the back, or brown and white on the back. Recently, forest rangers in Daxing'an Mountains in Heilongjiang Province found him. Is the red fox in Daxing'anling protected animals? What does it look like? How many are there now?

Is the Daxing'anling red fox a protected animal?

Red fox is widely distributed in Xizang in China, but it is rare in Daxinganling forest region. In recent years, the number of red foxes has decreased sharply, which is the second-class key protected animal in Xizang Autonomous region.

What does the Daxing'anling Red Fox look like?

1. Eye

The eyes of red foxes in the Daxing'an Mountains are suitable for seeing at night, and the pupils will become as small as needles in bright places, but because there are special crystal spots with strong reflection at the bottom of the eyeball, which can reflect the weak photosynthesis into a bunch and reflect it centrally, so it is often bright in the dark.

two。 Body type

The red fox is the largest and most common fox with an adult body length of about 70 centimeters. Its overall length is slender, but its limbs are short. The tail is more than half the length of the body and is thick and covered with loose hair.

3. Coat color

This time, the red fox in the Daxing'an Mountains of Heilongjiang Province is fiery red and is an adult Firefox. Others are yellowish brown or brownish white. In addition, there are many variants of body color in red foxes, such as black foxes or swarthy foxes.

How many red foxes are there in Daxing'anling now?

Wild foxes can be seen every year in Daxing'an Mountains, but most of them are yellow or black and yellow. Fiery red foxes like this are found for the first time, so the exact number is not known. However, with the great improvement of the ecological environment in Daxing'an Mountains, the living space of rare wild animals and plants is getting better and better, and in October 2018, in the Arctic Village of Mohe City, Daxing'an Mountains, for the first time in 20 years, rare wild animals, sable, a first-class protected animal, have been found.

Although only one red fox was found this time, I believe that with the better environment and better protection measures, more and more red foxes and other wild animals will be found in the future.