Lisa: Unobvious facts. Climbing trees, pretending to be dead to hunt, and masterfully deceiving with its tracks (6 photos)

Sometimes it seems to me that foxes got together with dogs by some stupid accident. Yes, they are related to dogs and wolves, but that’s where all the similarities end. The fox has a whole bunch of quirks that do not at all fit with the habits of their relatives. They completely copied their way of life from cats.





Don't believe me? Judge for yourself: they go out to hunt mice only at night. They track them on the sly, relying mainly on their excellent hearing and good night vision. At the same time, they climb trees excellently (at least for a dog), because their claws are partially retractable (!). Even their pupil is vertical, and not round, like all dogs! Why don't you like a dog on a cat's iron?



The fox might not have waited for the crow to drop the cheese. She could have simply climbed the tree and taken it from the bird.

Perhaps the animals simply figured out cat habits on their own - they are not short of cunning. Too lazy to hunt? Catch crows with live bait. More precisely, “not live bait.” Pretend to be dead and wait for the feathered corpse eaters to fly in to feast on your bodies.





Foxes are one of the few animals that can eat hedgehogs. To make the animal open, they throw it into the water.

Do you want to steal someone else's lunch? Lead his owner away from his rightful prey, cover his tracks and return to the meal. Do you want a homemade meal? Make a dig into the territory of a human yard and enjoy fresh chicken every day! Even the fox's territory is circumvented in a sophisticated way - track after track, in order to confuse those who want to kick the cheat's ass.



Oh, where did all the birds from the chicken coop go?.. Don’t you guys know?

Another trait follows from intelligence and intelligence - curiosity. But it doesn’t always lead to good things. Foxes poke their noses where they need to and where they don't. They get stuck in banks, car tires, and under fences. Those who hang around people especially suffer. And there are quite a few of them - more than 10,000 of them have settled in London!



By the way, about people. We couldn’t help but notice such cleverness and decided to become friends with foxes even earlier than with dogs - 16 thousand years ago. Alas, something didn’t work out—it didn’t work out to make foxes a ubiquitous pet. People only reached the point of domesticating animals in the 20th century.



Domestic foxes, unlike common foxes, have a lot of variations in color. This is one of the signs of domestication.

Domestic foxes were bred in Novosibirsk 45 years ago. Their behavior is an insane mixture of canine friendliness and cat habits, such as nocturnal behavior and damage to furniture. So if you can’t decide whether to get a cat or a dog, then get a fox - you won’t go wrong.