“Anadola” captured curious shots of hunting of red fox in Kars

The operator of the Anadolu agency captured interesting personnel of the red fox hunting in the Turkish province of Kars.

The height of the snow cover in the Susuz area reached a meter. Snow and cold weather negatively affect the lives of wild animals, which are becoming more and more difficult to get food.

The fox, the embodiment of cunning and dexterity in the folklore of many peoples, for several minutes carefully listens to each squeak and rustle in order not to miss the prey in a complex landscape-geographical zone in winter.

an ordinary fox or a red fox (Latin Vulpes Vulpes) is the largest representative of the Lisitsa genus.

The weight of the fox reaches 10 kilograms, and the body length along with the tail is 150 cm. Depending on the area of ​​residence, the color of the fox can vary slightly in tone saturation, but bright red remains the main color of the back and sides. Lisits’s lifestyle is single, they do not form flocks.

The main food of the fox is rodents that occupy 80-85 percent of its diet. However, the ordinary fox is happy to eat both hares and roe deer cubs. In the summer they can eat herbaceous plants and berries.