What a beauty! You’re lucky to have this friend around :3 Also, very nice capture

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

Can agree on avoiding ml as well

But how about just creating a new community on sh.itjust.works, blahaj.zone or pawb.social for all that matters? In my eyes they got good rep. Im happy to moderate said community

True, can just keep it simple and descriptive, ill try to remember to post more :3

I would be in favor of moving the community to a different instance than .world, .sdf.org is definitely an option with the !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org community already there, though as much as i like the running joke of the foxnews being actual fox news, it is kinda confusing possibly for someone that just wants to find a community centered around foxes, so creating a new community called fox@lemmy.instance or foxes@… would be in my favor

Thanks for the ping! Indeed didnt get it from the post, but did from this comment

Hi :3

I’m active here, just not much to moderate since not much gets posted. When I initially moved to Lemmy, I had an account on .world, and didnt find any fox communities so created it myself. Then got the idea of setting up a bot to upload hourly from my personal fox picture collection, but that never happened. Now not a fan of having it on .world because of it defeating decentralization, but its already kinda established.

Nowadays I never post because I can’t come up with a title, even though having plenty of images to post…

Also alot of time spent working on my own website, https://findafox.net/ on which there are plenty of pics :3