#gray foxes

These guys can climb!!!!

I REPEAT: THEY CAN LOAF!!!

So now, the question is: Should I (someone or another artist that draws Foxes better than me lol) do a drawing of Gray Fox Aiden loafing? 🤔🤔🤔

I can 100% see Aiden loafing while being a smug lil bastard that he is... Look at that stare! The mockery! Is literally Aiden Pearce in floof.

(Also I Headcanon that he also "loafs" as a human A. K. A he wraps himself in a blanket and that's the closest of a loaf he can get... Or should I name it Banana Bread? lol)

Anyways, thank you for listening to my ramble, have a nice day! 🤲🏽🩵

Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch:

Foxes are known for being fast and clever, but one species of fox has another, little-known trait that can help them survive alongside coyotes: gray foxes can climb trees.

A new study has found that the presence of trees might help gray foxes survive alongside coyotes in the countryside, and that’s likely because of their unique ability to climb trees. The study, “The effect of urbanization on spatiotemporal interactions between gray foxes and coyotes,” was published in the journal Ecosphere.

Though gray foxes are in the dog family — and are related to wolves and coyotes as well — they are more cat-like than many people realize.

“The super cool thing about gray foxes that most people don’t know is that they are the only member of the dog family that have retractable claws!” postdoctoral research associate at North Carolina State University and the lead author of the study Arielle Parsons told EcoWatch in an email. “The claws are not quite fully retractable like a cat’s, they are semi-retractable. This allows the foxes to keep their claws from getting dull as they walk around, keeping them nice and sharp for climbing, something that other members of the dog family, like red foxes and coyotes, cannot do. This gives gray foxes a unique escape mechanism if it comes into conflict with a coyote and underscores how tree cover may be especially important to the coexistence of these two species.”

Gray fox fact #2- Like many other canids, they love a good ear scritch