Within the wildlife Potrerillos, the fox is usually seen at dusk when carefully peeks through the streets of the different valleys or cross the path in search of food. It is also common to hear barking at night. As can be seen, can be interpreted as a wild canine is crepuscular and nocturnal. The presence of these animals in our valleys is important because in your diet including rodents are also small birds like partridges and herons. As you well know mice and rats can transmit diseases to humans, then it is good that foxes eat them controlled manner thereby maintaining its population and preventing these rodent pests become. Potrerillos area there are two species of foxes. In the plain, where the daily activity of man is developed, there is the (Pseudalopex griseus) gray fox as its name suggests is grayish, elongated body and a long tail that makes it seem larger than it is . In the mountainous area itself in the Cordon del Plata is the red fox (Pseudalox culpeus), larger and reddish. Overall the fox’s funny but very scary and aggressive so it is not recommended to try to grab their bites because surely also hurt they cause infections because their saliva contains bacteria. Generally these animals bring problems to the villagers as they approach the houses where chickens, ducks and geese are raised. At night take the opportunity to do harm. But if animals are enclosed in coops, it is necessary to take the precaution of burying the gallinera fabric 40 inches as the fox reached into the pen by a well under the fabric you are at ground level. Under the gateway must also bury a can or plate that prevents the entry there. Long ago came news of the Handbag, Black River, on the occurrence of a disease caused by hantavirus which sickened the population and even lives were lost. Experts warned that the virus was transmitted by the urine of rodents. The growth in the number of rodents coincided with permission to hunt foxes because there were many in that area. Removing them, the mice lost their natural predator and could freely multiply, invading villages and causing diseases. The problem was solved slowly banning fox hunting. Serve this story to learn to take care of our foxes, since they indirectly we are looking after us. Source: Journal Summits Plata.-
