The smallest of the Chinese foxes is a canine that lives in steppe, desert, and semi-desert areas.
Big Brother calls and sees a litter of 10 pups! This is the first time in China to hear it, very rare shufflefox family!
Let's go, let's get my smart camera, let's go meet my big brother, let's shoot the baby shufflefoxes. I've never seen a shufflefox before.
Shuffle fox (Vulpes corsac) : Body length 50-60 cm, tail length 25-35 cm, weight about 2-3 kg. Slightly smaller than the red fox. It's a long-legged, reddish-gray fox. The face is short and the mouth is pointed, the ears are large and pointed, and the ear base is broad. The back is light brownish gray or reddish brown.
They live in close proximity to other burrowing animals, occupying abandoned burrows they encounter or burrows built by animals such as marmots.
They are very active during the day, may nocturnal activity has also been reported.
The mating period of Shufflefox is from January to March, the gestation period is 50-60 days, and the litter is given birth in late spring and early summer, with 2 to 6 litters per litter. It has been heard that there is a record of 11 litters overseas, and this is the first time to hear of 10 litters in China.
Getting off the plane, and getting off the car, then trekking up the mountain. My big brother was waiting for me at the intersection, and then there was no signal. winding around, sometimes there is no road, big brother took me, pointing to the front and said: "See the shufflefox?"
Standing on the boundless grassland, excited I looked for a long time, no.
"Look ahead in the direction of 2 point. There are holes in the slope."
Oh, yes, a little white man is sitting on the hole, looking in our direction.
"Don't hurry. Look around. See if Mother Shufflefox is there. If he was there, he would warn, and the young Shufflefox would go into the hole." My elder brother told me.
/ A shuffle fox cave on the prairie
/ The vigilant mother shuffle fox
The shufflefox is very alert, sensing human breath and danger,they will move with their families. I brought with me U100 intelligent camera assistant, which can be remote controlled for 500 meters and take close-up shots without disturbing the animals.
While the mother shufflefox is out, quickly set up the intelligent camera near the cave.
We parked the car far away, sitting in the car controlling the process remotely, the camera quietly shoot the Shufflefox family's daily life at close range.
I sat in the car, the mother shufflefox out hunting, the baby shufflefox in the camera play freely.
/ A little shufflefox curious about smart photographers
/ Vigilant Mother Shuffle fox (video)
/ The happy little shuffle fox shuffle fox（video）
The presence of the intelligent camera assistant on the ground is lower than that of the yaks. There is no chance that the photographer will lose the opportunity to shoot because the shufflefoxes are disturbed to move.
The shufflefox could not see people, so It is very comfortable to eat,play, and even move around the photographer, so the camera kept shooting at a distance of 6 to 15 meters.
Animals and photographers do not interfere with each other, which is the best shooting environment for ecological photographers.
Animals and photographers do not interfere with each other, which is the best shooting environment for ecological photographers.
By the time I got here, the baby shufflefox has been already grown up and run so fast, it was hard to get a group shot.
There are numbers of time I photographed the scene of training the shufflefoxes .This picture shows eight baby shufflefoxes.
