Hey, thats me!

They’re very good climbers, often also choose to sleep high up in the trees, nice and safe, better not roll over though…

Indeed, they evolved in similar environments, meant to fulfill a specific role in said environment. Here’s a quote from my friend Vuca that sums it up pretty good.

A taxonomic exclusionist might consider only members of genus Vulpes to truly be foxes, but such is not my own view, thus here is why I am inclusive of what I deem a “fox”:

“Fox” is a pre-scientific appellation. Hence I think what is considered a “fox” ought to be based on appearance and behavior (lay pre-scientific traits) rather than genetic taxonomy. And here are what I would define as the traits of a “fox”:

1. a small-to-medium size wild canid
2. with a long bushy tail
3. that hunts small prey, in a solitary manner
4. that does not live in packs

From: https://findafox.net/user/vuca

Gray foxes are not from the Vulpes genus, which we call ‘true’ foxes, and are illustrated in the post. Theyre from the genus Urocyon! Which actually evolutionary predates Vulpes. Gray foxes not being part of Vulpes does not mean they are not foxes in the scientific sense, but in the sense of it being an animal which behaves, looks like a fox, so we still call them foxes.

Also think about the crab-eating fox (cerdocyon), bat-eared fox (otocyon) and all south American foxes (lycalopex). Theyre not true foxes as theyre not vulpes, but theyre still what we call foxes! :3

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caninae

https://findafox.net/post/view/1704

https://findafox.net/post/view/2906

Aww what a polite looking fella

And even more!

boop

Yup, a mlem is a blep but licking their own nose. Heres a blep, an eepy blepper even.

Well i sadly didnt take the picture, i havent even seen any fox irl. I hope that i ever will have such adorable floofs in my backyard. But here is the source of the image if that helps!

Foks!

It probably depends on what client/app you’re using for lemmy, I’m using connect on android and it plays just fine in the feed.

Damn