Re: [SI] COMM-ents
- From: Walter Banks <walter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:15:04 -0500
Alan Browne wrote:
Foxy Walter: as communication I don't get it. Blinked eyes? and...
For a dog, squinting or averting eyes means submission, no?
I don't know. A fox would run, I would think. Everytime I got close to
one (20 ft or so) they took off into the thickets.
It was submission and a message of trust. In another post I
translated the message. :)
The body language and behaviour of foxes is very similar to dogs.
This one was raised in a den under the floor of an old log cottage.
Her parents often hunted near our house always wary. Several
times last spring and summer I walked down near the den. I was
being watched carefully by mom. She nursed her young and let
them play as close as 15 or 20 feet away.
Such a treat. Just prior to this picture Laura tossed the young
fox a dog treat we were on the deck she was maybe 10 feet
away from Laura. Toss 2 or 3 and they will bury the spares
for later.
A week ago a pile of Roughed Grouse feathers appeared within
20 feet of the house. Fox prints all around. I saw her as recently as
a couple weeks ago, there are daily new foot prints.
To be clear she is a wild animal and I would have it no other way
her instincts are to flee humans we have never molested her and
it is great fun to see her often for quite close outside face to face.
We see lots of other evidence of her hunting during the winter
with remains of grouse, doves,rabbits and small rodents.
w..
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