For Teddy Bracard, the fox is "a fascinating, cunning animal, which knows how to adapt to all the conditions that man imposes on it". The photographer and naturalist has just "spotted" a burrow where a mother fox and her nine pups nest, while an average litter, "normally, is three to five cubs". Then begins a patient in camouflage outfit to draw the portrait of this nice little family ...
A species that "self-regulates"
"By the sea, in the city, in the mountains, the fox is everywhere," explains Teddy Bracard. One of the faculties of this animal is to manage to self-regulate: "In years when there will be big epidemics of diseases, foxes will react and make much larger litters. So there is never a hole in the population."
The fox is also an auxiliary to agriculture. "It feeds 95% on micromammals, so mice for example, which are also species that are the primary vectors of Lyme disease, so ticks. And then it's going to be nature's cleaner, often picking up dead hares by the roadside, dead pheasants."
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Considered a pest, this beast is often hunted. A practice that poses a problem since "the more the animal will be hunted, the more it will make numerous litters. Shooting the fox is really ecological nonsense." This is why fox hunting was banned in Luxembourg: "they made it a protected species to see if small game populations went down or up. Well, it had no impact on small game populations! ».
This article is produced by Brut and hosted by 20 Minutes.
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