A man in Heilongjiang encountered an white fox on the mountain. After being fed with kindness, he accidentally discovered that the white fox seemed to be going to a place by himself.
The man said: It keeps taking me forward. If I don’t leave, it will turn back and wait for me, and will come back to call me. What’s going on?
Fox After walking with her for a while, the man realized that the fox invited him to visit "home". There was a nest of white foxes in "home". They looked like they were hungry. The man gave them all the food on him.
Subsequently, the man issued a statement saying that some people said he should not feed wild animals, but some also told him that this was not a wild animal, but a fox released by man. The man said that he would contact the relevant departments to help them.
Judging from the performance of this fox, he was really "becoming a spirit". He knew that the man had no malice and gave it food, so he took him back to his home.
There are many foxes in my country, and the more common ones are: Red Fox , shuffle fox and Tibetan fox , among which Tibetan fox mainly lives in the area of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau .
shuffle foxes are mainly distributed in grasslands, deserts and semi-desertified areas, far away from forests, shrubs and farmland.
Red fox, as its name suggests, the hair is brown-red or brown-gray, with a wide distribution range and a large number. It is not rare to see red foxes in Heilongjiang.
However, there are few whites in the red fox family. Even if the gene mutation appears, it is easy to be eliminated by nature. Because red foxes need to protect their colors and avoid natural enemies and hunt food.
Since it is not a red fox, what kind of fox is this white fox in the nest?
They are likely to be: Arctic fox!
Arctic fox
Because the hair of Arctic foxes has good warmth and can be used as human cold protection fabrics, people have long raised Arctic foxes in artificial environments and raised them in large quantities as fur animals.
There is no wild Arctic fox distributed in my country, but Arctic foxes are very common in the Northeast because the temperature in the winter is low in the Northeast and the consumption of fur has been high for a long time in the past. Arctic foxes, as a precious fur beast, have also been raised on a large scale here.
In order to obtain the highest profit at the lowest cost, some farmers will feed Arctic foxes in cages and prevent them from moving, so that they can grow more hair if they are bloated.
This also caused the breeding of Arctic foxes to be tortured by various health problems, and even caused the lack of exercise to stand on their legs, and infections.
Many foreign environmental protection organizations believe that the production process of fur is a cruel abuse of fur beasts, so they have been calling for the use of other fabrics to replace fur and cancel the production of fur.
In recent years, due to factors such as environmental protection concepts, aesthetic changes, and global warming , my country's consumption of fur has also dropped sharply. Fur was once called "soft gold". Fur with 10,000 yuan per piece is not short of customers, but now there is no one who has received a huge price reduction.
Fur consumption plummeted, and it was transmitted to the upstream that the fur purchase price plummeted. In the past, when the market was good, a piece of mink raw skin could be sold for 400-600 yuan, but now it can only be sold for 140-200 yuan. Arctic fox breeding also faces the same problem, with the plummeting purchase price and the decrease in sales, which has led to the loss of raising Arctic foxes. Many farms either reduce the breeding volume or close their doors.
Over the years, farms that raise fur animals such as Arctic foxes have successively closed down, and the destination of Arctic foxes in the farm has become a problem.
"Releasing" is not a good thing
For example: In 2020, many Arctic foxes appeared in the mountains and forests near Laoshan Mountain in Qingdao. Professionals analyzed that they were most likely released to the wild.
(The color of Arctic fox is black and gray in summer)
In 2016, more than 300 foxes appeared near Huairou Mountain in Beijing. When the Forest Police arrived, many died, and many foxes had no food or drink, and their living conditions were very bad, and some of their tails had fallen out.
Witnesses said that all the foxes that appeared here in were released by humans. At that time, many people drove here and released more than 300 foxes and left. Because witnesses did not recognize these people, the police also encountered a lot of trouble when chasing those who were released.
The nest of white foxes that appeared in Heilongjiang this time is likely to be the result of artificial release, mainly based on three judgments:
- There are no wild Arctic foxes in my country. The albino species of red foxes are very rare, and it is impossible to have a nest of white foxes at the same time;
- This nest of white foxes is more relatives, and wild foxes are more alert and will avoid them when they hear human movements;
- The white foxes have poor survival ability and are not strong foraging in the wild
Many people think that releasing animals is a good thing, but in fact, releasing white foxes, or other artificial animals, is not only not doing good, but doing evil.
Artificially bred animals do not have the ability to survive in the wild, and they cannot survive even if they put them directly in the wild. In many cases, many white foxes released to the wild have died.
Released white foxes will destroy the local ecology. More than 300 foxes appeared overnight in Huairou Mountain, Beijing. These foxes killed nearby chickens and ducks, causing losses to local residents.
Also, the released white fox may carry diseases, and spread to the wild can also cause diseases in wild animals.
More importantly, if the released animals are invasive species, such as: crocodile gar , scavenger , it will also cause serious damage to the local ecology.
Illegal release of animals is legally responsible, so those who want to release animals and "do good" should not release animals randomly. Releasing animals without scientific knowledge is actually doing evil.
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