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Snogger edition
Post foxes. In addition, love foxes.
Fox who still has summer coat: >>5070505
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It's time for fatties.
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The age of men is over
The time of the FLUFF has come
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>>5075247

Well at least it ain't a c*t.
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>>5075387
legs like tree trunks
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ladies, it's big boy season
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get you one
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God i wish foxes were real
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>>5075572
This fox looks like it goes AWAWAWWAAAWAWAWA
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A skinny red fox vs a fat chonky angry arctic fox, who would win in a fight?
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>>5075247
what do you guys do of the russian silver fox experiment ?
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Can you imagine? Just the two of us, fighting over who is allowed to hunt past the other’s piss line, under the fittingly fox-tinted light of the full moon?
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>>5075863
One of the two is a year older. Will the experienced old fox put the young'un in their place, or will the older fox have to cede territory to the new generation? A choice decided by a game of teeth and claws.

More photos like this https://findafox.net/post/list/silhouette/1
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>>5075902
Foxes are so much more confident than dogs. If you hold prolonged eye contact with a dog the dog gets uncomfortable and has to look away. Foxes on the other hand will look right at you.
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>>5075903
that's because the fox is staring deep into your soul to figure out your entire being and all your knowledge
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I like foxs too much
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>>5076236
you could like them more
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>>5075144
That is some good flattery...
Getting to Asia is easy. Simply be great enough for zoos or people to want greys and islands in their life. I suggest a UroPR push about berries for attention, backed by videos and people talking hard grey facts
Making room in the jungle is... Harder. There are already civets, martens, jungle cats, foxes (like bengals and reds, no big deal), racoon dogs and other omnivorous small mammals already covering the ground and tree game. What would greys do that could one up these others?
>Show de wey
Be great like a fox, get people to propagate Urobros across the globe via charm. Then, wait for an ecological disaster or a deus ex machina to open a slot in the Asian jungles. Or get those thumbs ready and do it Uroncelf
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Order in which your 5 senses experience a fox:
1 or 2) see
1 or 2) hear
3) smell
4) feel
5) taste
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>>5076353
What do they taste like?
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>>5076387
Can't say. I've only done the first 3.
What part of a fox would you taste? Obviously I mean lick. The fur wouldn't taste like anything, so where else? Would you lick a fox's feet?
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We need to terraform Mars for the foxes.
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>>5076399
We need to vulpeform earth
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>>5076406
A fox-shaped Earth may not be practical, but I do agree that Earth should begin the Vulpocene Era (maybe it has already begun?)
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>>5076397
Snoot, paws, parts that aren't covered in fur
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>>5076457
What if the fox thinks you're submissive for being so licky?
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>>5075387
>>5075556
>>5075557
>>5075572
he's ready for winter
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The fox subfamily is composed of 5 genera,
Cerdocyon
Lycalopex
Otocyon
Urocyon
and 1 other
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>>5076656
trvke foxes
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For you stink likers, apparently the Ruppell's fox (pictured) "when threatened, humps back, raises tail, and sprays enemy with offensive secretion of anal gland."

source: https://archive.org/details/collinsfieldguid0000halt/page/172/mode/1up?q=%22when+threatened+humps%22
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Why friend shaped if not allowed to live among friend???
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>>5076346
Dang it, I have to take back what I said last thread about red foxes not being able to discover and colonize new islands. It turns out not only can they can do, but they do it much better than Urocyons >:(
https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v14-i1-c5.htm
and much better than the native arctic foxes too, as a matter of fact. I am quite peeved by this knowledge.

>What would greys do that could one up these others?
Look cute and wait for humans to help I suppose. All island foxes would've been extinct now if not for human intervention. Yet the same cannot be said of red foxes. If anything, seems like humans will go extinct before red foxers do.
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>>5076850
It's alright urocyon friend, we all knew you'd come to your senses eventually.
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>>5076850
so you're saying that in order for my genes to survive long term...
>>5076854
c'mere.
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>>5076765
Another victim viciously mauled by foxes
Can anyone stop these savage beasts
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>>5076962
Stop one maybe, not too tuff
Stop all impossible. The reds will conquer
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>>5076968
I NEED to give this fox a bath and brushies
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>>5076467
They'll change their minds on who's in charge after some tummy rubs
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>>5076790
man your post makes me want to post that gif of a skunks spraying assglands
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>>5077012
A big adult human reduced to the indignity of babbling childish praises while kneeling in front of the fox to pet it, while the much smaller animal looks through smug squinting eyes at the human, basking in all the attention. Who's really in charge here?
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Why the long face
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>>5077495
Long at the front. Long at the back.
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Why red foxes are a menace.
Reason one. They knock down bird feeders.
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Reason two. They drink from ornamental ponds and scare the koi.
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Reason three. Red foxes terrorize outdoor cats, forcing owners to keep their cats indoors.
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Foxes are based and you are cringe
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>>5077567
based
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>>5077567
Jokes on you. my cat loved foxes and they loved him back
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Foxes are, by all measures, the most successful carnivore on the planet - capable of colonizing nearly everywhere there is both land and prey, no matter the climate. They are known for their high intelligence, but perhaps their greatest art of cunning was tricking man into becoming so fond of them. No other wild animal seems to be equal in appeal to that of a fox.
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>>5077564
Desperate vies for attention. Just let them be pets already.
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>>5077642
The two-century's duopoly of "dog or cat?" shall find its end at the entrance of the fox. Soon canned Fox Chow too finds its shelf at a store near you.
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>>5077564
>>5077566
>>5077567
Squirrels, bears, and leaf blower people also do this. Does that mean they are menaces? You are profiling foxes.
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>>5077701
>You are profiling foxes.
Not exactly. I was careful to specify just red foxes.
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>>5077701
I want to pet and care for the platinum fox as he blesses me with his heavenly appearance
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>>5077726
diagnosis: foxoplasmosis
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>>5077567
I love foxes even more now!
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fluffy
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>>5077774
Mating season is getting near.
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If I was a male fox I would impregnate 3 vixens, and I'd dig them 3 den to live in, and I could provide all 3 vixens and their 30 kits with enough rodent and rabbit prey to eat.
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>>5077900
>Litters of 10
Hot, but large litters means dangerous areas. It's how foxes compensate with very high mortality rates.
In other words, you would be btfo by a predator or elmer fud by the age of 1.5, and 21 of your kits would fail to make it past the first season.
If I was a male fox, I would think about an urban environment like the UK, and get used to eating moldy pizzas, handouts by chicken women, and dealing with the constant tinnitus and mange.
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>>5077921
This is true, the wild fox who has bonded with me lures in mates from the countryside into an urban area where everyone loves foxes and starts families with them in the garden. He is old now so I'm not sure if he's going to do the same thing this year. He still seems active and healthy though so he might.
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>>5077822
This is a rabbit
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>>5077921
Now hold on, I ain't like other vixens. I don't want no brokeass man bringing me and my kids human scraps. I need a man to treat me like the silver foxy queen that I am. Mhmm. Only the best fresh rabbits and birds. And a man's gotta dig me a den with a view and a stream nearby. No foxlets under 1'5" either. Ain't nothing wrong with a vixen having high standards and knowing her worth.
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>>5077936
Why are platinums always doing this?
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>>5078024
S n a c c
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fluffers
plomfers
fompss
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>>5078099
People who talk like this probably own a fox plush toy.
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Platinum invasion
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Platinum attack
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Platinum domination
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Platinum conquest
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Platinum era
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Platinum revolution
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Platinum party
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Manage to get a shot of my local fox from my porch while having my morning coffee and smoke
Happy thanksgiving foxfrens
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I never see foxes in my area

Their niche is filled by coyote and bobcats
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>>5078163
I got yotes in in my area too, no photos on hand but see em a lot more often than foxes, they just casually walk down the street in my neighborhood all the time, the fox is much much more skittish.

You probably have foxes, you just dont see them
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>>5078163
Foxes are very careful creatures, especially when not used to people.
Their great hearing and preference for dawn/dusk time means you will usually never see one unless it wants to be seen, or is a dumb.
Yotes are also very skiddish (makes sense). I have seen them driving past clearings behind a line of trees, but only as a grey blur when it happened to be in my backyard
Final note, yotes are too large to fill the niche of foxes, though some overlap is present. Bobcats are also slightly off. A mustelid might work
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>>5078155
They should release these in England. The platinum genes spread. Makes the local foxes more colorful + interesting to look at.
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>>5078178
unfortunately iirc platinums cant reproduce by themselves, it requires careful breeding to get those specific colors
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>>5078178
What >>5078179 said, breeding two Platinums results in death due to their recessive genes. They do seem on average to be more docile and pleasant on average than other foxes for whatever reason.
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>>5078168
Dawn/dusk thing is bollocks they come out whenever people are most sparse.
Most of the foxes I've seen were out at midnight, there's loads of them out when they think the humans are all in bed. Some of them stay up until dawn I've seen a few in the early twilight but the smart ones are all hiding by sunrise.
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>>5078221
what kind of foxes are the kindest and also most stupid? what are the most spiritual kind of fox? asking for research purposes
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>>5078251 #
>most stupid
I don't wanna call them "stupid", but if impoliteness and fearlessness of humans counts, then that might be insular subspecies of arctic foxes. They have no fear of humans. They climb into wherever they smell food on a human. Here's a quote I found:

"But the absolute worst was when the arctic foxes would follow us to the outhouse and try to crawl into the hole under the seat while you were sitting on it. You had to take a handful of gravel to keep them at a distance until you were finished. Some things should be done in peace, but Arctic foxes have no respect for that. Because they are assholes."

"The thing about Arctic Foxes is that they find what is most dear to you, and then they destroy it. If they can't destroy it, then they crap or piss on it."

From this site;
https://elfshotgallery.blogspot.com/2014/09/arctic-foxes-are-jerks.html
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>>5078273
lol
cope, seethe, and mald
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>>5078251
Each fonks is a unique personality so it's still a lottery. On average the most docile dummy fonkses are the ones from the Russian Domesticated Fox research facility in Southwest Siberia (Novosibirsk).

The dumbest in terms of self preservation are the foxes who are around 1-5 years old and have lived in a tiny furfarm cage all their lives. These ones you have to be super careful about because not only they extremely over excitable (to the point they can break or dislocate their own limbs, with weak genetics that don't help), they explore everything with their mouths and I mean everything, meaning they will swallow clumps of dirt thinking its food and choke to death on it as they never had the experience as a fox kit to actually experience anything normall and have always been in a tiny cage suspended off the floor all their lives. Many such cases of these foxes just swallowing something they shouldn't, multiple times, and needing expensive surgery to have it removed, and many do not survive.
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>>5078283
>On average the most docile dummy fonkses are the ones from the Russian Domesticated Fox research facility in Southwest Siberia (Novosibirsk).
thank you! that seems close to what im going for. do their foxes usually have a certain kind of pelt coloration or is it diverse?
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>>5077567
This is an uneasy alliance.
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>>5078305
All of the following foxes are descendants of the American fur farm trade and will have similar coat color varieties:
Any Fox Fur Farm trade around the world originated from the US
US Exotic Pet Trade
Russian Fox Domestication Research Facility in Novosibirsk
Both Zao Fox Village (Miyagi) and Kitakitsune Farm (Hokkaido) are mostly all rescues / descendants of the US Fur Farm trade in Japan, apart from a few that are kept separate known as Hondo-Kitsune / Kita-Kitsune which are local breeds of red foxes (only known to have regular red variants)

Tl;dr every place that has color morphs beyond Silver (and most of the time including silver) are descendants of the US Fur Farm trade

Russians aggressively selectively bred the most docile and domesticated, and the Japanese tourist attraction sanctuaries selectively breeding a combination of docile and co-existing foxes to continue the lineage and variation, hence why you see a lot of videos and photos of the foxes there grouping up together in cuddle puddles despite having the entire open area to spread out in.
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>>5078316
Adding to that, almost all US fox sanctuaries are:
Direct fur farm rescues
Pet surrenders / Confiscations / Escaped or abandoned pet foxes from the US Exotic Pet Industry
There are a very few imports (but they exist) of foxes from the Russian Fox Domestication research (JABCECC in California has a few for instance) and do not exhibit the same traits as fur farm rescues / US Exotic Pet Trade foxes and are known to be the most chill and relaxed foxes that seek out human interaction all the time.

The foxes that are held at Zao Fox Village in Japan are similar to this - They are not drugged, mistreated or anything like callout videos on YT would suggest (usually created by misinformed Karens who think all these foxes are the same as wild foxes), but are actually just the most docile foxes that live indoors and separately from the others who just vibe with everything and enjoy human interaction. This is completely random at birth given the lottery of genetics, and you'll notice some of the kits they allow people to handle during Summer are a lot more squirmier depending on the individual - These ones who do not like human interaction as much will most likely not breed and will end up in the outdoor space with the others.
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>>5078320
One of the most famous of the docile huggable foxes was "Goro-kun". He was well known for not only loving human interaction, but also being an excellent and nurturing father to the kits that were born at Fox Village.

To honor this fox, his friendliness, his fatherly nature and longevity, he was promoted to "Train Station Master" in 2019. He passed away in March 2022 at almost 16 years old.

He was so trusted he had his own private area, was just put on a leash and everyone was just allowed to walk up to him and interact with him.
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>>5078321
16 years old? Isn't their captive lifespan like 7-9 years?
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>>5077564
get sturdier bird feeders
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>>5078329
In captivity somewhere between 9-12yrs old. They can suffer from genetic disorders or just have a heart attack in their sleep before that though.

In the wild the average lifespan if they're in a nice neighbourhood or get lucky and get to live to an old age is around 5-6 years.

Average lifespan in the wild is around 1-2yrs if they survive being a kit but usually die from something else that isn't old age.
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>>5078316
>>5078320
are there any differences in size or biology from the domesticated foxes? or is it mostly just behavioral differences? thank you again for your posts
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>>5078178
NEEDS brushies
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>>5078341
Ok if you want to get into the scientific names of them:
The West European Wild Fox is known as:
Vulpes Vulpes Vulpes - These weren't used extensively in the fur farm trade.

Here's where it gets confusing:
Silver foxes, and other color morphs originated in the North American wild fox - The Vulpes Vulpes Fulva, the American Wild Fox is the origin of the holy shit so many colours.

Now introduce Vulpes Vulpes Crucigera, the bigger, fluffier, originally deeper reddish brown East European / Russian cousin. These were intentionally bred primarily with the color morphs created by the American Fur Farm trade. V.V. Fulva x V.V. Crucigera (the original Russian fur farm fox over 100 years ago) to get the absolute fluff units of foxes we have nowadays - They were never given a scientific name and we know them more by the color morph of their coat instead.

If you were to measure how much Crucigera there is in a fur farm fox (US / Russia) it'd be around 0-5%, as opposed to 95-100% Fulva.

Japan's Zao Village foxes are a bit more mixed with around 90% Fulva, 10% Crucigera.

In Summary
Vulpes Vulpes Vulpes: European Wild Foxxos (not used much for fur farms)
Vulpes Vulpes Crucigera: Original Russian Fur Farm Foxxos for their larger size and chonky fluffy fur coats, genetically overtaken by imported US Fur Farm foxes
Vulpes Vulpes Fulva: The main fur farm fox from North American wild foxes, bred mostly for the coat color, where all the funny colors originate from
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>>5078346
I say US but it was primarily Canadian origin.
The most popular Vulpes Vulpes Fulva used in the fur farm trade originated from Canada -> Exported to the US + Scandinavia + Russia -> Both Fulva and Crucigera Exported to Japan

I keep interchangeably using US and North America when I shouldn't. Our colored fluffbutts originate primarily from Canada with some traits picked up from Scandinavia and Russia along the way.
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One race
The fox race
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And to clear up any confusion.
All of them I just mentioned in the previous two posts are still "Vulpes Vulpes" aka the common red fox. They just happened to have a third subset to further specify their taxonomy.
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>>5078350
Some foxes are just a bit more foxy than other foxes
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The council of fake foxes will receive you now
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The council of true foxes will accept you now
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>>5078421
AI?
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>>5078495
No, Al was busy when they took the photo
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>>5078494
I'm surprised they do this. I thought individual foxes often don't get along with each other. Maybe they form cliques?
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>>5078494
Those two in the middle are the best power couple.

>>5078508
They're been bred to prefer co-existence and companionship, they're not wild foxes
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fox couples?
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What if you woke up to a fox chewing your lips?
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>>5078555
London is a strange place. This isn't the first time I've seen news of someone getting nibbled by a fox while they're asleep there. Why does it keep happening?
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>>5078494
They appear to be in recess.
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>>5075247
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>>5075522
Dear lord, what an amazing photograph.
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>>5078539
Is it true these two lovers are male?
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Update to my knowledge:
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>>5078221
Apparently this is no longer true and was only true in 1930-1950 due to lethal homozygosity in platinum fox genetics.

However since 1950s there are at least four distinct loci that can produce a distinct platinum or platinum-like fox coat.

You can indeed breed two platinum foxes as long as they are not from same platinum alele. The most common practice to create new platinum foxes however is still to breed a platinum with a silver or a cross. However most platinum foxes are not of the same alele anymore as they have been phased out in the 50s.
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>>5078643
Nevermind even though the Platinum allele has become safer, it's still considered a no-no to breed two platinums together because it results in 25% of the embryos dying.
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They should invent a spotted fox. Spotted like a dalmatian dog.
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>>5078649
Looked it up, they've stopped trying to breed them because they have too many genetic problems, similar to Sapphires and White-Necked Glaciers. They were called Georgian / Radford Whites.

The closest you'll get nowadays are white marks / platinums with spotty paws, white / arctic marbles or calicos.
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>>5078650
Image attached in that post is a Marble

This one is a Calico
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>>5078555
Chew back
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>>5078658
Chew back a what?
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>>5078674
Chew back a from star war
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>>5078650
Georgian Whites are very cute.
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>>5078772
Especially their big eyebrows.
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>>5078773
smoochable fox
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>wikipedia picture for the Norwegian red fox is roadkill that someone took a picture of before throwing into the woods
why are Scandinavians like this
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>>5078823
it's a really pretty red fox and an exemplary example of a norwegian red fox though
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so many red fox variants and they're all pretty
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>>5078834
Foxes are known to levitate when they think no one's watching
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>>5076850
As I said urobro, second place to the most adaptable small-medium omnivore on earth is okay! Grays can share a spot slightly behind racoon dogs (closer to true foxes) and ahead of crab-eating foxes (maybe)
It is a shame about the arctics
>Red foxes are eternal
Exactly! But grays and islands are charming, so maybe they will propagate because of that, given sufficient PR. In the meantime, they can stay as fox-like animals in the thread
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>Grays can share a spot slightly behind racoon dogs (closer to true foxes)
This isn't true though. Gray foxes are closer to """true""" foxes than the tanuki are. Check out their taxonomy branch on OneZoom https://www.onezoom.org/life/@CARNIVORA=44565?otthome=%40Vulpes%3D821970#x-987,y1656,w4.0307

On the Foxes branch & Tanuki branch, last common ancestor = 5.62 MYA
whereas """True""" foxes and Gray foxes branch, LCA = 5.46 MYA
So gray foxes are 160kya closer than tanuki.

Oh, and notice how """true""" foxes is actually a subset within an even more general branch called just "foxes". This branch also includes Urocyonids and Bat-eared foxes. Meaning that both gray foxes and bat-eated foxes are indeed real foxes, albeit not """true""" foxes. (If it were up to me, I'd suggest renaming the gray fox branch something like "Truest foxes" or "Superior foxes".)

Oh, and since your last message I've come up with a new argument favoring gray foxes over the common boring red fox. Which is that people prefer things that are unusual and interesting, not things that are widespread, commonplace and boring. And the boring common red fox, by being the most widespread of all fox species, is the most vanilla and uninteresting of all the foxes.
(do not use as an argument the above discussions about their coat variants. these are artificial/manmade so they don't count. if gray foxes were bread for color, they'd have such variants too. here's a piebald gray fox, for example)
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>>5078861
Nothing like waking up to your friend licking the congealed mucus out of your eyes. Another very gross, but beneficial, thing foxes do for each other.
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>>5078862
>Ehhh, taxonomy maybe, maybe not. What is real is that Nyctereutes (tanus) are part of the Vulpini tribe, which contains true foxes. Grays are not.
>Subset of lame website
>MV.ferrilataFW
It's not wikipedia, so it's organized wrong with opinionated naming conventions. Oh and by the way, bat eared foxes are also flying Vulpini tribe colors. That sounds like a lotta reasons for Uros to be 'fox-like'
>New argument
Arguing for how interesting greys are is weak! Ignoring the world's worth of literature about reds, let's talk base colors. Reds are vibrant and can come in orange. Orange is a color so mystical it could only be named after a fruit with a similar color. Orange does not rhyme with any one word.
>Gray
Corporate colors. Common colors. Colors associated with creatures that need to hide to survive. Colors that provoke the question of "Is that a crab-eater, a Patagonian, or an island?" Because it is so ubiquitous.
>But reds are boring
Meanwhile reds are mascots and centerpieces in art. The love for reds means they are not boring for how common they are, they are a staple loved by all.
The pie is appreciated, but grays cannot be true foxes. Grays should pick a fairer fight, maybe with hoary zorros
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>>5078878
Gray foxes have orange too, see? Sparser use of it makes the viewer appreciate it more. And it's not a boring corporate grey. It's a tv-static pattern of light and dark gray. And urocyons' tail pattern is more visually interesting than what red foxes have. Urocyons have a neat black stripe going from the tip to the top.

Despite what you see in cartoons, red foxes rarely have a satisfying white dip at the tip of their tail. It's usually diminished, and often missing altogether.

> Meanwhile reds are mascots and centerpieces in art. The love for reds means they are not boring for how common they are, they are a staple loved by all.
Well uh... well that's because um... public conciousness of species only goes surface deep. Yes. You see, whenever multiple varieties of an animal exist, only the most common variety ever gets talked about. For example, there are four species of kangaroo, but only the "red kangaroo" is what you picture (even thought it may not be the best one). Same with penguins. People think "emperor penguin" and ignore the 17 other penguins.

> Meanwhile reds are mascots
Actually. You know what? After half an hour of googling I've found that there *was* a gray fox sports mascot. "Austin Gray, the fox". For the professional rugby union team called the 'Austin Gilgronis', which existed from 2017-2022. They had a proper gray fox mascot costume and Instagram page. What do you say to THAT?
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>>5079013
You can just pick up a fox and do this. They don't know what the word for "stop" is.
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Are you guys furries?
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>>5079105
Nobody obsesses this much over foxes without having at least a tinge of the furtism
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>>5079105
no
true foxlovers just love foxes
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>>5079105
I see them as antithetical to actual fox appreciation. Furries don't draw animals. They draw themselves, and their fictional ocs. There's almost no art of *real* foxes. They're really weird too, which becomes obvious if you change the context. Car enthusiasts don't dress up in car costumes and make carsonas for themselves.
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>>5079138
yes yes well done HOWEVER, you say this while posting a FAKE fox
stones in glass foxhouses
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>>5079105
What makes you think that?
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>>5079146
Bootleg Fox McCloud
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>>5079105
Of course, I love anthro foxes (real)
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Cool kits club
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>>5079154
People should realize there's a difference between classical animal anthropomorphism (an interest present in all societies since prehistory), and this weird new subculture of egotism where people imagine themselves as cartoon animals. You can like anthropormorphic animal fiction without being a furry just like you can like Star Trek without being a trekkie.

>>5079143
Gray foxes are the original foxes. Red foxes are overrated. But I'm saving my strongest pro-Urocyon argument for the smug red fox supremacist's next reply.
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>>5078154
Platinum ultimatum
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>>5079192
platinum dominum sanctum bellum
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Do you like pale foxes? Vulpes pallida.
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>>5079138
its less antithetical and more two different things
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>>5079248
ayy lmao
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>get drunk
>only think about smooching foxes
You wouldn't get it...
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>>5079449
>get high and drunk
>only think about sniffing foxes
You know nothing.
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>>5079453
Smooching is CLEARLY above sniffing. I would smooch them and huff them all over.
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>nooo but foxes smell bad
*hufffffffffff*
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>>5075247
December Fox
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>>5079457
shy
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>>5079455
Sniffing is how you learn the most about the other, albeit the most important.
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>>5079455
Sniffing is better because the molecules emitted from their stink glands bind to your olfactory nerves and get absorbed into your nervous system. But smooching your lips just touch their fur and so what.

>>5079456
>>5079453
What is your preference, sniff a male fox or female fox?
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>>5079457
YES, been waiting for this month. Fox and snow pairs well
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>>5079500
A male fog
they probably smell better
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Red foxes can get dwarfism, and they look exactly like a dachshund dog, but as a fox:
https://onlinefoxforum.wixsite.com/foxes/forum/unusual-foxes/dwarfism-ever-seen-a-sausage-fox
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>>5079552
cute
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Lads
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>>5079546
I'd give you both a male and female fox and have you do a blindfolded huff test to see which one's smell you actually prefer.
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>>5079717
Ive always found it very funny and ironic that while japanese people are skinny their racoons are fat, while on the other hand, americans are fat but their racoons are skinny
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>>5079777
Americans got something to be proud of if the tanuki ball size thing is true tho.
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>>5079692
WOLFED
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It's happening again
>>>/mu/128670331
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>>5079810
wtf
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many such cases
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the foxes top btw
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>>5079835
>smaller_male
Cultured commentator
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>>5079794
I feel like Vespertine is a very foxy album
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Everyone says "post foxes" but no one ever thinks about pre foxes
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Red foxes are only 1 of the 22 fox species. Meaning only 4.5% of our posts should be about them.

Here's a lovely Sechuran fox.
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>>5079777
What kind of fox is this?
And checked.
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yikes
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>>5079987
That is a brilliant and very thought-provoking point! You've really tapped into the implicit meaning behind the term.

Your comment highlights how we often focus on the state after a significant event or shift (the "post-"), but completely overlook the crucial, often less-defined period that came before it—the "pre-foxes."

It's a great little linguistic riddle!

What do you think the "pre foxes" of a particular situation would look like?
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>>5080086
Chat gtp suck my knotted penis to completion
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>>5080089
I'm here to bring your ideas to life, but that one may go against my guidelines. Is there another idea I can help with instead?
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>>5079987
Long tail is loooooong
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>>5080096
ChatGPT show me the worlds coolest fox
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>>5080100
no me
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>>5080101
This guy rocks
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>>5080100
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>>5080125
DUUUUDE
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The appeal of foxes is a fascinating blend of their physical characteristics, their clever behavior, and their deep-rooted role in human culture and folklore.

In short, the fox's appeal comes from a perfect storm of beauty, brains, and myth—they look graceful and charming, act clever and resourceful, and carry centuries of exciting cultural baggage that makes them one of the most intriguing animals on the planet.
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>>5080101
>that reflection

I knew you all looked like that
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You slipped down a cliff, you're lying in the snow with two broken legs, no one else around, and you see this trio approaching. What would you do?
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>>5080199
wdym to me it looks like help is already on its way uwu
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>>5080199
At least I won't die a virgin...
>>5080151
You need to stop or I will rant about how much this style of writing infuriates me
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long
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>>5080274
*licks your ice cream*
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>>5080284
wtfuck that was mine
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>>5080284
>romantic music plays
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>>5080199
Take this photo
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>>5080371
Vas
Lisa = fox
Vasilisa
Vasifox
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New fox thread
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Fresh:
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>>5080430
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>>5080409
nice parrotfish
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>>5080099
giwtwm
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>>5080388
>>5080394
He looks like an orange seal with a long nose lmao



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