They hibernate most of the year and they smell. I mean, he doesn’t want to hang out with a black bear. I was the biggest mammal around that was reasonably friendly. He thought it was a clever plan for him, and it was. He had the right personality and low-key dogged me around. Foxes are advanced animals they have different personalities. They’re on my property all the time, and it hasn’t happened since. It’s really difficult to have a friendship with a fox. He was willing to take the risk to hang out with a dangerous person because he was a male, and it was in the daytime, and he had this regular schedule. And hanging out with a human, that’s really risky. Females are just the more stable species. Males engage in lots of behavior that’s not really evolutionarily stable-tooling around town on those Harleys and drinking too much beer and that sort of thing. If you have a population where your females are engaging in behavior that’s not evolutionarily stable, the population’s probably dwindling.
Males are willing to take risks that females aren’t willing to take.
If they don’t have a regular schedule, it’s really difficult for them to connect with you because we’re not outside 24 hours a day waiting for them.Īnd the third thing was he was a guy, a male fox, a dog fox. Those are two really important things that almost never happen with wild animals. He was out in the daytime and he had a regular schedule. Because if he was, I never would have met him. Most people think of wild animals, most of them, as hanging out in the nighttime, being nocturnal. Your folks know that word it means like dawn and dusk. You want me to tell you why I got lucky and why he was so odd? Because he wasn’t nocturnal or even crepuscular. They tend to stay away, correct?Ĭatherine Raven: Yes. Foxes in general, as a species, don’t tend to come anywhere near people.
Her new book, Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship, is out now from Spiegel & Grau.īrad Listi: So you befriended a wild fox, which is not something that happens very often, even among people who live close to nature as you do.
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