If you look at the Tibetan fox, you will always feel that it is despising you.

Don't feel good about this little guy. In the alpine zone where they live, they are first-class hunters, coming and going without a trace, and always with that bemused expression on their faces.

Tibetan foxes generally live in high-altitude areas.

They are found in China, India, and Nepal. Their body size is small, usually around 50 cm tall.

The weight is usually not more than ten pounds.

This size makes the Tibetan fox less powerful, so it cannot hunt large animals.

At most, it feeds on wild rats and rabbits. Sometimes they also prey on birds.

They also eat some fruits for balanced nutrition.

But although the Tibetan fox also belongs to the fox, its looks and our impression of the fox are really a little different.

It does not have the slim body of the fox. It is not only fat but also has short legs.

It also does not have the small face of other foxes but is a big face.

In fact, the skull of the Tibetan fox is not very different from other foxes.

But because the Tibetan fox lives in an alpine region, it needs longer and denser fur in order to keep warm, which makes it look bloated.

The most important food for the Tibetan fox is rabbits and rats.

They curb the breeding of wild rats and hares on the grassland and solve a big problem for human beings.

The groundhog is also the food of the Tibetan fox. But the relationship between the Tibetan fox and the groundhog is a bit complicated, not simply a predator and prey relationship.

They are both antagonistic and cooperative.

Because the Tibetan fox and the groundhog are both burrowing animals, but the difference is that the groundhog digs its own holes, while the Tibetan fox does not.

When the Tibetan foxes need to breed, they will give birth to their young in the groundhog's hole.

When they are not breeding, they will chase the groundhog away and take over the hole themselves.

The Tibetan fox has almost no natural predators in the grasslands where it lives.

This is because it lives at a relatively high altitude where there are fewer large carnivores.

But even so, the Tibetan fox was classified as a protected animal in 2000, why?

This is mainly because of their fur. The fur of the Tibetan fox is gorgeous and thicker for the cold, so it is very popular in the fur market.

So there were many people who hunted and killed the Tibetan fox in a big way.

In a short period of time, it made the number of Tibetan fox decrease drastically, and finally nearly become extinct, which is a great loss for human beings.

We hope people will stop killing these animals just to satisfy their desires and vanity.

It would be unfair to cause their extinction just because of human desires. So we hope people will take action to protect them.