Why do they sound like someone’s vehicle has a fucked ignition?
Did someone flood these foxes engines?
^^^ exactly my thoughts
fun fact! red foxes make this sound when they have meet their perfect mate or soul mate would you have it! so basically they’re just screaming for all the other red foxes that they have found their love and for all the others to fuck off
^ That’s completely incorrect! That sound is called ‘gekkering’ and indicates an aggressive encounter. Another post suggested this is probably a territorial dispute. These vocalizations are intended to de-escalate the encounter by making one of the foxes back off before the interaction becomes violent. Foxes, so far as I am aware, don’t have any kind of soul-mate announcement cry. They also don’t have soul mates. They form mated pairs and family groups like wolves and if one of the mated pair dies they mate again fairly quickly.
Here’s another video of what appears to be the same two foxes, taken at the
Zao Fox Village near Shiroishi, Japan. You can see them scuffling with each other before they begin gekkering.
Rural problems #554: A Lady Fox announcing she’s in the mood for some dick sounds almost exactly like a child is being murdered somewhere in the woods and my sole extant paternal instinct keeps waking me up out of dead sleep every time she screams.
A professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, Alexander Badyaev
also happens to be an award-winning nature photographer.
Inspired by
both passions, perhaps, his curiosity was piqued by the fawn and rabbit
skeletons he would often find perched on the branches of ironwood trees
outside his home in the desert near Tucson, Arizona. “Once I discovered
that these trees are social centers of gray fox activity, I got hooked
on observing these animals and learning their biology,” he says.
As explained in the California Academy of Sciences’ magazine, bioGraphic,
the curious species first evolved more than seven million years ago in
the lush tropical forests that once enveloped the area that is now the
American Southwest. “Since that time,” notes bioGraphic, “this
anatomically distinct fox has accumulated an impressive array of
un-fox-like adaptations for life in the canopy, including primate-like
flexible wrists and cat-like paws with long, curved claws that allow it
to grip tree branches…”
I often see foxes referred to as “catdogs” on Tumblr, but I wonder if folks realise how true that really is.
There’s a phenomenon called convergent evolution that occurs when two taxonomically unrelated species exploit the same ecological niche. The features that are needed to best take advantage of a given niche are pretty much the same everywhere you go; thus, over time, those species will become anatomically and behaviourally similar, even though they’re completely unrelated.
And foxes? Foxes are what you get when an ecosystem has no native small felines, so a canine species evolves to take advantage of the ecological niche that would have been exploited by a small feline, if one existed.
In other words, a fox is literally what you get when a dog tries to cat.
So, in a way…
#omg #I knew I had a huge reason for loving foxs #other than #you know #loving fox
on a similar note, hyenas are what happens when there are no dogs so felines fill that niche, Hyenas particularly spotted hyenas are wolfcats
You don’t want one, they aren’t good pets for the same reason monkeys aren’t good pets, but yes- they’re a lot like cats.
And I’m pretty sure this cutie (who I doubt likes that little vest thing) is trying to pounce through the pillow like they do through underbrush or snow to get at prey underneath. Hence the bajillion videos of foxes faceplanting/diving headfirst into snow.
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