Lisa is always busy with something. The cheater has no free time at all. Look around, look around, she has no time. But one day, magical events made her take a fresh look at the world ...

Fairy Tale "The Fox and the Walking Boots"

There lived a fox. She once found walking boots in the forest. Who lost? The fox took them to the hare. He refused to take it, said that he was running so fast, he didn’t need walking boots.

The fox thought, and offered walking boots to her chatterbox friend magpie, but she said that it was more convenient to fly without boots.

Then the fox herself put on the magic boots and went to the magic forest. In the magical forest, she flew like a bird. The fox looked down and wondered how beautiful it was! Then she went to her native forest. “How did I not notice the beauty that surrounded me every day before? It was worth being in a magical forest to understand how beautiful the world is!

Questions and tasks for the fairy tale

What magical item did the fox find in the forest?

To whom did the fox offer walking boots?

In which forest did the fox fly?

What discovery did the fox make for himself?

The main idea of ​​the tale is that the world is really beautiful. Sometimes, in order to understand this, you need to put on magic boots and find yourself in a magical forest. But it sometimes happens that the magical forest is no different from the real one. The forest is always a little magical. What events are taking place there, behind tall pines, centuries-old oaks and sprawling birches? Various. This is from the realm of mystery ...

What proverbs and famous expressions fit the fairy tale?

Beauty is sweeter than simplicity.
Beauty is not a burden, but a joy.
Life is beauty. Admire her!

The fox is one of the most beautiful predatory animals. She has a graceful elongated body, slender legs, a long fluffy tail. Head with pointed muzzle and large erect ears.

Common fox photo.

The fox is about the size of a small dog. The body length of an adult is from 60 to 90 cm, the length of the tail is from 40 to 60 cm. The weight of a fox usually does not exceed 10 kg. Foxes living in northern latitudes are often larger than their southern counterparts.

The fur of the fox is long and fluffy, for the most part colored red. The belly is more often white, less often black. The further north a fox lives, the brighter its color. Sometimes in nature there are foxes with unusual color- black-brown, white. During the year, foxes molt twice, changing their fur either for winter - thick and long, then for summer - rare and short.

Spreading

Habitat red fox very wide. It is found in Europe and Asia, North America and North Africa. Foxes live in different landscapes - in forests and steppes, in deserts and tundra, in mountains and on flat terrain. But still they prefer open spaces with copses and ravines.

Fox in the forest photo.

Lifestyle

Foxes live in pairs or families. They usually lead sedentary life, occupy a site on which they hunt and arrange a dwelling for themselves for the night and breeding. In deserts and tundras, where long distances have to be covered in search of food, foxes migrate from one place to another.

Foxes dig deep holes in the ground with narrow passages and a wide nesting chamber. They usually make their burrows on the slopes of ravines or hills, protected by dense grass and shrubs. Often, not one, but two or even more passages lead to the nesting chamber. This allows foxes to run away from pursuers in case of danger.

Fox with cubs near the hole photo.

The fox is a very cautious and intelligent animal, she easily leaves the chase, skillfully confusing the tracks and resorting to all sorts of tricks. The fox has a good sense of smell and hearing, thanks to which it easily detects its prey. The fox is able to make sounds reminiscent of the yapping barking of a dog.

Nutrition Features

Foxes are predators, so their main diet consists of animal food. Foxes prey on both small animals (voles, mice, hamsters) and larger ones (hares and roe deer cubs). On occasion, the fox will not refuse to catch a bird or a chick, it can willingly eat eggs from a nest found in the grass. With a lack of food, the fox can eat carrion.

Most often, voles, small mouse-like rodents, become prey for foxes. Usually they make up the main menu of foxes, especially in winter, when food is scarce and very difficult to get. In winter, the fox has developed its own way of hunting for small rodents, which is called mouse. This method consists in the fact that the fox listens to the rustles and sounds under the snow, and when he hears the squeak of a vole, he quickly jumps headlong into the snow, tears it apart with his paws and tries to catch the rodent.

Fox hunting photo.

Sometimes foxes drag poultry from the yards - geese or chickens, but this does not happen too often.

AT warm time foxes supplement their diet with plant foods - berries, herbs, fruits.

fox breeding

Foxes usually breed once a year. To that important event animals are prepared in advance - even in winter. Foxes find suitable places for holes and guard them from others.

Several males can take care of one female at once. They often fight among themselves, seeking the favor of the female.

The male chosen by the female becomes a good family man. He takes care of the female, helps her to improve the hole, and when the foxes appear, he participates in their upbringing.

A fox's pregnancy lasts from 49 to 58 days. After that, from 4 to 13 fox cubs are born. Cubs are born blind and deaf, but at the age of two weeks they begin to see and hear, by the same time their teeth erupt.

Fox cubs photo.

The fox feeds the cubs with milk for a month and a half. Gradually, fox cubs are accustomed to ordinary adult food. To do this, foxes have to hunt a lot to bring prey home.

If something happens to the fox father and he dies, then some other fox who has no offspring takes over his care. He takes care of both the female and the cubs.

When the cubs grow up, their parents take them hunting with them and teach them how to get food. By autumn, the cubs become independent and leave the parental hole.

Brief information about the fox.

The fox is one of the most beautiful predators. The color of the skin is red, the tail is long and fluffy, the muzzle is long and narrow, and the eyes are smart and cunning. The fox is about the size of a small dog. The color of the red cheat varies from fiery red to gray. In the north, foxes are almost red, in the steppe they are gray-yellow. Silver fox, by the way, is also an ordinary fox with some deviations from normal coloring. The most beautiful is black-brown fur. Therefore, silver fox has long been bred on farms.

The fox lives in Europe, and in Asia, and in America, and in Africa. This animal adapts well to different climatic conditions. Southern foxes are smaller than northern foxes, and besides, northern foxes have thicker and fluffier fur. The fox is an extremely agile and frisky animal. She runs so fast that it is difficult for dogs to catch up with her. In addition, this is a very cunning beast: she can indulge in various tricks, confusing her own tracks or getting her own food.

What does a fox eat. How the fox hunts

The fox is a great hunter. In addition to observation and ingenuity, she has an excellent memory, a good sense of smell and remarkably sharp hearing. The squeak of a vole, for example, a fox hears for 100 m. Being a predator, the fox eats a wide variety of animals. She eats mice, hares, rabbits, amphibians, reptiles with pleasure, digs up earthworms from the ground after rain, catches fish and crayfish in the river. But he especially loves red cheat enjoy the bird. Therefore, she often looks into chicken coops. By the way, the proximity of a person does not scare a fox at all, so you can often find a fox hole very close to the village. The fox successfully supplements the meat diet with berries, apples, and vegetables.

Each fox has its own individual feeding area. She jealously guards him from the intrusion of strangers and always knows what is happening near her hole. The fox usually hunts in the evening and at night, although there are exceptions. Some animals prefer to go around hare nesting sites during the day, hunt birds and feed exclusively on large game, neglecting mice or frogs.

Despite the fact that the fox will not miss the opportunity to feast on a gaping hare, catch a black grouse or ruin a bird's nest, in the forest it does much more good than harm. The main food of foxes are voles, mice, ground squirrels and other rodents that are harmful agriculture. And the growing foxes exterminate the May beetles in large numbers - well-known pests in forest areas.

Mating season for foxes

The mating season for the fox begins in January - February. At this time, the female rushes to search for males, who declare their readiness to marry with a short, abrupt bark. During the rut, you can see an amazing group: a beautiful female runs ahead, and several males follow her at once. In the end, the patience of males is depleted, it's time to choose which of them is worthy to take a place next to the female. You can watch fierce fights between males, during which the fox patiently waits in the direction of the winner. Only the strongest fox gets the right to mate with a female. At the end of estrus, the foxes scatter to the sides.

fox cubs

Pregnancy in foxes lasts 51 - 52 days. By the end of this period, the paternal instinct wakes up in males. They search for pregnant females and again fight with rival males, now for the right to stay near the female. From now on, the winner takes all the hardships family life: helps to dig a hole, feeds the fox at a time when she still cannot leave newborns, shares with the female the responsibility for raising young foxes. Fox cubs usually appear in late April or early May.

At first they are brown in color and very similar to puppies, but they all have hallmark- white tip of the tail. The young generation is growing up quickly, by the 20th day of life they are already beginning to crawl out of the hole and feed not on mother's milk, but on live food. It is not easy for the father of the family to feed the voracious cubs, so the female also begins to help in the extraction of food. Parents not only bring live mice, birds and small animals into the hole, but also begin to teach the kids the basics of hunting. At first, the cubs prey on May beetles and grasshoppers, but gradually they become accustomed to preying on larger game: voles, lizards, and frogs.

Fox cubs grow rapidly, and already in August it is difficult to distinguish them from a distance from an adult animal. In November, young foxes begin an independent life and disperse in all directions.

Where does the fox live: the habits of the fox. fox holes

Foxes don't always live in burrows. They use these dwellings only when raising offspring, and spend the rest of the time in the open. Foxes have almost no feelings of home. They settle where they like, and even then not for long. The fox willingly digs holes near human dwellings, sometimes foxes wander even into big cities. The fox often does not want to dig a hole on its own and uses other people's dwellings, for example, the fox has great respect for comfortable burrows dug by a badger.

A mature fox acquires burrows not only in order to grow offspring in them or hide from prolonged bad weather. Often burrows serve as a refuge for them in case of danger.

The old fox, as usual, has not one hole where her brood is placed, but several at once, which provide her with a reliable refuge in exceptional cases.

Fox hatching holes are mainly located on the slopes of a ravine, not far from a stream, in a forest thicket, that is, where people usually do not wander. It happens that the fox from year to year returns to the hole dug by her once. Then such "apartments" are constantly expanding, being renovated, acquiring several additional "rooms", which are usually located on 2 - 3 floors. Hunters are well acquainted with such holes and call them "secular".

Usually, a fox hatching hole is equipped with several exits - otnorks, which allow it to leave its shelter unnoticed in case of danger. The main snout, which the fox regularly uses to enter and exit, is noticeable from afar. Usually this is a clean area, sprinkled with sand, which appeared here as a result of many years of cleaning the hole. Here you can often see playing foxes.

The fox's molting period

By the end of winter, the fox coat, previously shiny and fluffy, begins to fade and becomes rough. The fox begins a period of molting - hair falls out, and the beast loses its external attractiveness. Molting occurs quite quickly, and by May the foxes acquire a new fur coat - summer. If the fox is sick or thin, the molting period is extended, and then even in June you can see a fox with disheveled winter fur. Summer wool is not valued: it is coarse and rare, since there is practically no undercoat - with the beginning of autumn, the wool begins to thicken. And only with the onset of cold weather fox fur begins to be considered full-fledged.

Fox hunting. How to hunt a fox

For fox hunting to be successful, the hunter must learn about all the habits of this cunning beast. In addition, you need to learn how to unravel the fox trail and distinguish it from the dog. For an experienced tracker, a fox trail can tell a lot: about the age and gender of the past fox, about where the beast was and what he did, whether he was hungry or full. The tracker reads tracks like an open book, and this can only be learned through extensive practice.

Compassion as a diagnosis.

And tell me, dear ones, what does compassion indicate? Such an event happened. Someone threw newborn kittens under the windows, in the heat, as planned, they did not die and screamed for almost a week ...

The little fox was born in a deep, tight hole. The fox was blind, her eyes did not open, she had no teeth, and her hair was short.

The little fox had four brothers and sisters, and they were all as miserable, clumsy, and blind as she was. The mother fox fed them with her milk and warmed them with her body: she had such fluffy, soft fur. The mother fox rarely left the hole; runs away to eat and again comes to the foxes. It was warm and good for the cubs in the hole near the mother.

Two weeks later, the cubs opened their eyes and teeth began to erupt. But it was dark in the hole, still nothing to see. One day, the mother took the fox by the back with her teeth, carried it out of the hole and carefully laid it on soft grass.

For the first time, the fox saw the free light. First sunlight so blinded her unaccustomed eyes that she could not see anything and closed her eyes, then gradually opened her eyes. How good it was around: everything is so green, the grass is soft, fluffy, the flowers are yellow! The sun warmed the fox, she was warm and cheerful.

The mother fox began to drive the cubs out of the hole every day. He sits next to them and watches: if the hunter is walking, if the dog is running, if the evil kite is flying. He sits, pricking up his ears, looking at the cubs, and they are tumbling in the grass, fighting, rolling on the ground, running after each other. The mother will run away for a while and bring them food: she drags a mouse, or a grasshopper, or a frog, or even catches a hare. Hungry fox cubs are happy, they will rush, they will eat everything in an instant. And as soon as the mother hears some rustling, she starts up, rushes to the children, drives them home, and grabs the weak one by the neck with her teeth and drags them into the hole.

The cubs grew up a little, and the mother began to teach them how to catch prey. He will bring a live mouse and put it between the cubs, and they catch him. The mother sits and strictly watches the children:

as soon as she gapes or misses the mouse, she bites the fox with her teeth. The little fox will squeal, but there is nothing to do, it’s his own fault: don’t yawn.

Then the fox will lead the children to the hillock and show how to catch butterflies and bugs. All cubs catch everything that moves, boldly rush to the prey, they are not afraid of anything. And the mother teaches them how to be careful, how to listen, if a hunter is coming, if a dog or some other large animal is running.

By autumn, the cubs grew up, began to run alone, without a mother; their hair became red, fluffy, but they still lived all together in a hole.

Winter came, the cold came, snow fell. The trees in the forest and the bushes were bare, and it became more difficult for the fox to hide. Hunters began to travel with dogs. Hungry fox cubs are sitting in a hole, waiting for their mother, they are afraid to get out themselves, but she does not go for a long time, because she is afraid to run straight to the hole, she is afraid to show the way to the hunter. The fox is spinning near the hole, confusing the tracks, leading the dogs astray.

The cubs are waiting, waiting, and hunger pesters them.

They will start barking and howling. Then they will crawl out, they themselves will go for prey, only they rarely find anything, they sit more and more hungry and remember the warm and well-fed summer ...

Describing a fox in an artistic or scientific style for children will help you write essays and prepare for the lesson.

Brief description of the fox

The fox is a beautiful animal. Her body is covered with thick red hair. The fox has a luxurious fluffy tail. She has short legs and a sharp muzzle. The eyes of the fox are beady, glow with cunning fire.

She lives in abandoned minks of ground squirrels and badgers, prefers meadow areas. The fox feeds on mice and hares. A sleepy owner drags chickens.

Fox is an excellent swimmer. She runs away from enemies in zigzags. The fox runs very fast.

The fox is the hero of many fairy tales, where she performs a not very plausible role - she steals chickens, is cunning, hunts birds, etc. In fairy tales, they call her - gossip, Patrikeevna, cheat, prankster, etc.

Description of the fox for children

The fox likes it everywhere - in the field, in the forest, in the meadow, on the shore of the reservoir. It is impossible to confuse it with another animal. Well, tell me, who else has such a gorgeous red fur coat and a long fluffy tail with a white speck at the end?

Lisa is a big fashionista. She has two fur coats - winter and summer. Moreover, the winter one is much warmer: its fur is thicker and longer than that of the summer one.

It is to the honor of the fox that it is distinguished by great intelligence, cunning.
This beast has excellent hearing. In winter, the fox carefully listens to various sounds and accurately determines where the mouse is tinkering under the snow. The fox immediately rakes the snow and overtakes the prey. They say that the fox "mouse".

The fox is a typical predator. In the summer, the diet of the fox is made up of frogs, small birds, and animals. And if you get into the habit of running to the farm - beware! He will carry hens and cockerels.

The fox, preparing to bring out the cubs, becomes a real builder for a while. She digs (builds) long, intricate holes with several exits. You never know! But sometimes the fox is lazy. Without building anything, he uses a ready-made hole, the one dug by a badger or some other animal.

Have you heard the voice of the fox? He is sonorous, she “yapps”. And if it comes to a fight, then the foxes squeal so piercingly that it won’t seem enough. Fox dad and fox mom caring parents. The male takes care of the female with the cubs.

The fox story

Lisa is a real beauty. She has a warm red coat. Narrow curious muzzle. Her ears and paws are black. But the fox is proud of its tail - large, fluffy.

The tail is also red, and the tip can be dark or white. When a fox runs or jumps, the tail helps it keep its balance.

The fox is really smart, observant, dexterous and cunning animal. The red-haired "cheater" prefers to live not in a dense forest, but closer to the edge. Or where there are fields, ravines, small copses.

Often a fox lives next to a person - not far from the village and even the city. In order not to catch the eye of a person or relatives - dogs, both dexterity and cunning are required.

An observant fox knows that when a dog sits on a chain, there is no need to be afraid of it. Let yourself lie! And she minds her own business. The fox may not pay attention to the people working in the field: they are not up to her.

But if she is in danger, the fox, almost flattened in running above the ground, stretching her fluffy tail, quickly runs away. Get the fox! Hold on! And she was gone!

Sometimes hunters look for a cheat in forest thickets, along ravines, and she will run away into a field sown with tall wheat or oats and hide. Very close to the village where the grief-hunters live.

Some are sure that the fox only hunts by stealing chickens. Of course, the fox will not refuse chicken, but this does not happen so often. The fox's main food is mice.

The fox also hunts hares, catches birds, ruins their nests. Will not refuse beetles and other insects. Will gladly swallow a frog, lizard or snake.

The fox loves to eat berries, fruits, some plants. Patrekeevna has a rich menu.

The fox has good hearing and sense of smell. In winter, the fox “mouses”: it runs across a snow-covered field and listens to see if a mouse squeaks under the snow. If he hears, he will dig and seize the prey.

Sometimes he will be so carried away by prey that he can let him close: the fox's eyesight is not so good.

A fox digs a hole to breed. But she herself does not want to work, and she often takes other people's holes. But he will definitely make several emergency exits: which does not happen in life!

Fox cubs are born blind, deaf and toothless. The fox feeds them with milk. And soon the cubs both see and hear. And they cut their teeth.

Grown up fox cubs do not sit in a hole for a long time. They are interested in exploring the world. But as soon as the fox barks, the cubs quickly hide in the hole. Or they run to their mother.

Foxes do not gather in flocks, they prefer to live alone.