Hello everyone! The last post I wrote about the field hunter that is the most common horse that is ridden for fox hunting, and well, as you noticed, I love horses (:! But now, I am going to talk again about foxes. While I was reading some articles on the Internet I found information that was about the way that foxes communicate. I think that this is a really interesting topic because, Who hadn’t ask yourselves how the animals communicate? Well, I’m going to explain you how the foxes communicate with other foxes.
Sound: Foxes are one of the most silent animals but they also use a wide range of calls like, for example, they ask for their mother’s attention or also to locate another fox or a mate. These calls are made all the year but it is more common to hear fox callings during the winter.
Smell: The use of smell to communicate information to other animals is called scent marking. The foxes use urine to communicate to other groups. For example, they mark their home range and also the urine is used to communicate when the females are fertile.
Posture: Foxes used many facial expressions and body posture. Tail wagging is used when meeting family members and aggressive behavior may be directed towards.
Well, these are the most common ways that foxes used to communicate between them, but there also some investigations about if the foxes recognize each other’s smell, but people can not know for sure if foxes could do that.
Bibliography
Bristol, University of. The fox website . 04 02 2009. 19 10 2011 <http://www.thefoxwebsite.org/>.
Hello Diana! (: haha hey! This is interesting :P I have never learned about how animals like foxes communicate, and this is also good to know for the hunters when they are searching for them and they hide or plan an escape with other foxes. It is good for the hunters to know more about the animals they hunt, I think, it is not enough if they are just good at shooting. Wow I didn’t know foxes talked more in winter :P, I did not even know they talked, I thought they just made “grr” and things like that. But as living beings they communicate in their own way. Oh, and I also didn’t know they used urine for the scent marking you talk about, well, I guess it is a very perceptible smell X( haha yuck, but I had the idea that they could identify the scents through body fat, their hair or hormones, something like that. Maybe those hormones are in their urine as they were in the blood before and that is why they also identify the scents through that. Haha hey and that is cute! That foxes wag their tails when they meet family members, aw. I thought dogs just did that with their owners, but not that other animals could do it, I thought they just didn’t care. It would be cute to see them happy to see the family members hehe, that is another reason for me to like foxes ;) you brought interesting information(:! I will continue seeing your blog! See you (:
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