On food preference in the Red fox

摘要: SUMMARY 1 Foxes treat different prey species in a variety of ways, eating, burying, or discarding them on the basis preference. 2 Because foxes often utilize cached food and because they can remember which is given cache preference effect be longstanding. 3 Evidence from literature suggests that comparable effects for small mammals affects diet wild their behaviour same way as demonstrated these experiments. 4 Certain distastes appear common to all most carnivores, instance, insectivore carnivore meat, particular own species. 5 An incidence active cannibalism by fox reported. 6 The shown change during course one individual's life perhaps consequence such factors rearing cubs competition food. 7 One behavioural consequences defer decision what eat. 8 That will kill animals it does not eat means populations are strictly still at risk predatory activity.