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@fox-fact-friday
I really love foxes. My house is full of fox... things. Plushes, stickers, blankets, all of that.
So I know lots of things about foxes. And I want to share that with you!
Other cool folks:
No relation to @fox-thursday, but they're good people, too.
There are non-profits in the United States that work to save foxes from bad ownership scenarios as well as fur farming.
If you want to donate to something good and wholesome before the end of the year, you should consider donating to one of these organizations. I personally like Save A Fox. They're based out of Minnesota, with a second location in Florida, and this year was a huge year for them, with them saving 500 foxes from a fur farm and preventing the owner from ever entering the trade again -- and that's just the biggest thing they did this year! The above picture is from one of their videos. You can donate to them here! https://www.saveafox.org/donate
This one's a little icky to some, but I think it's so COOL, and so NEW (as of the time this is scheduled for, this is only a few weeks old), that I can't help but share it with you! Research is showing that foxes may have played a pivotal role in helping early humans to stay warm and safe in the cold winters, by providing furs and bones to make needles out of. Foxes have always been intertwined with humans, for as long as we've existed, and there's something truly marvelous about that.
Throughout human history, foxes appear in many different pieces of mythology and folklore. Foxes are often depicted as tricksters capable of outwitting most humans, but sometimes they can be depicted as being wise or kind or just plain magical.
Few animals have the cultural history that foxes have, and even fewer have such consistency in their depictions throughout history and across cultures.
In Scandinavian folklore, the hulder are a race of forest creatures that may appear as beautiful women, but often with the tail of a fox.
Sometimes called Skogsrå, Tallemaja, or Ulda, depending on region, they are typically depicted as good natured forest folk, especially to those who treated them respect.
Fennec foxes are native to the deserts of northern Africa. Not only do their big ears make them great at hunting for the prey that provides both food *and* water, they help with heat regulation in the heat of the desert!
In some parts of Greek mythology, the Teumessian Fox was a giant fox that was destined to never be caught.
Eventually, the fox caused so much trouble that it had to be stopped -- and so they called for Laelaps, the great hunting dog destined to always catch its prey, to capture it.
Faced with a paradox -- how does that which is destined to always catch its prey catch what is destined to never be caught -- Zeus cast both Laelaps and the Teumessian Fox into the night sky, as Canis Major and Canis Minor.
Today is a hard day for a lot of us. The future is... uncertain, and that's putting it very mildly.
So today, a few extra fox facts that have absolutely nothing to do with our current political climate in the US.
Foxes are extremely adaptable. The red fox, alone, thrives on five of the seven continents, with only South America and Antarctica having no red foxes. Foxes have found ways to thrive damn near everywhere.
Foxes in and around cities look and act different from their more rural counterparts. They are able to do what they need to do to thrive in their environment, and adapt quickly.
Even climate change doesn't threaten red foxes the way it threatens so many other species. They've successfully moved north and done quite well for themselves.
A lot of the animals included in Vulpes and Urocyon don't look anything like our usual conception of foxes. Because they've become their own wonderful, beautiful, unique things in their own environments.
The Tibetan Fox adapted to the steppes. The Corsac Fox adapted to the mountains. The Fennec Fox adapted to the deserts. The Arctic Fox adapted to the tundra. The Kit Fox adapted to the American Southwest. The Swift Fox adapted to the grasslands of the Western US. Red Foxes adapted to bigger changes than this.
They'll adapt. They'll be okay. I promise.
We'll adapt. We'll be okay. I promise.
We can be bold and brave, we can be known as tricksters throughout the world and through history, we can adapt and become truly ungovernable.
Be just a little more foxy today.
In Finnish mythology, the Aurora Borealis -- the Northern Lights -- are the result of a celestial fox running through the night sky!
Thanks to their warm, fluffy fur, and some other adaptations, arctic foxes don't start to shiver to generate heat until -94F (-70C).
Arctic foxes have special adaptations for living in such cold climates. One of the coolest -- no pun intended -- is a webbing of blood vessels in their legs that act as heat exchangers. Blood going toward the paws warms blood returning from them, so the blood going to the body is pre-warmed and the blood in the paws loses less heat to the cold ground!
Grey foxes are not members of vulpes, like red foxes, but are instead part of Urocyon!
This is the corsac fox -- or to the people from its homeland in the steps of Central Asia, just the corsac!
Do you have any facts about the canadian marble fox?
I do! They're a subspecies of vulpes vulpes -- the red fox! They're a coloring variant that occurs when a more "standard" red fox and a "silver" (melanistic) red fox have a litter together! They largely/entirely don't exist in the wild, due to the specific breeding circumstances required to make them.
Foxes are incredibly good hunters, with a success rate of up to 80%!