Is the beaver protecting animals?

Dog beaver, also known as Zi Zi, a species of the family Canidae of the carnivorous order. Medium-sized, fox-like, but obese. The coat color of raccoon dogs varies from region to region and season. Distributed in the Asian part of the Soviet Union: Korea, Japan and China. So is the beaver protecting animals?

Answer: yes.

Dog beavers belong to terrestrial wild animals that are beneficial under state protection or have important economic and scientific research value.

Protection level

Included in the IUCN Red list of Endangered species (TheIUCNRedList): non-endangered species (LC), assessed in 2008.

Life habits

Usually hide in the cave during the day and come out at night. Raccoon dogs live in shady stone caves in summer; in other seasons, except for giving birth, they generally do not use the cave, but hide not far from the cave. Living alone or in groups of 3 to 5, foraging in pairs with families as units, 5~10km2 in family range.

The action is not as quick as jackals and foxes, the sex is more gentle, the cry is low, and can climb trees and swim. Distributed in the north, winter (from the Beginning of Winter to Lesser Snow) is often unsustainable sleep, that is, sleep can not come out in the hole. But unlike real hibernation, they often come out in snowmelt weather. This winter sleep habit is unique to dogs in the canine family. The footprints of raccoon dogs are arranged in pairs like a small chain.

It mainly feeds on small animals, including rodents, birds, eggs, fish, frogs, snakes, shrimp, crabs, insects, etc., as well as berries, fungi, rhizomes, seeds, grains and other plant foods.

In our country, there are raccoon dogs in the south and birds in the north. This is because people are used to taking the Yangtze River as the boundary, the birds produced in the south of the Yangtze River are called the south raccoons, and the raccoons to the north of the Yangtze River are called the northern raccoons. The northern raccoon dog is large and plush, and the fur quality is obviously better than that of the southern raccoon dog. The raccoon dog is small in size, short in needle hair and sparse in fluff. Therefore, at present, the vast majority of farmed raccoon dogs come from northern raccoon dogs, and the most are Wusuli raccoon dogs in Heilongjiang Province.