Why Is This Deer Licking This Fox?

When Chris Lowe first saw the buck stoop to lick the small, silver-speckled fox, he thought his eyes might be playing tricks on him. He’d just gotten back from a run on Santa Catalina, a remote Southern Californian island where he studies sharks, and came upon the two animals in the scrub. Mule deer and island foxes, the rascally miniature descendants of gray foxes, are everyday sights on Catalina’s grassy hills. But to see them nuzzling was downright weird.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/why-is-this-deer-licking-this-fox/543621/

Publicado el 29 de diciembre de 2017 a las 04:50 PM por biohexx1