I need one more Cute Animal Video to bring myself back to normal. This is a good one.
As you know, this site considers foxes to be Honorary Cats™, and I have no compunction about posting the antics of these adorable fox cubs (pups?). The YouTube notes say this:
A family of gray foxes have decided to move into the backyard, and four frisky baby foxes play under the cover of night. You can find more reviews and details about my amazing camera at http://bit.ly/canon5d3. It was DARK outside with only one porch light, so this montage was shot at f/2.8 @ ISO 12800, which is crazy.
h/t: P
Mamma and Papa fox, where are your children right now?
Who knew they could climb trees??
Somehow this video got me – via a cute duck, owl and of course cat – to this super-cute cat-budgie (cudgie? budcat?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp8-jITevuw
I’m sure this will make you well in an instant.
Love it!!
“As you know, this site considers foxes to be Honorary Cats™, and I have no compunction about posting the antics of these adorable fox cubs (pups?).”
Fox kits. That bolsters your honorary-cat position.
Two points:
– ISO 12800 sounds a bit crazy, but since the scale was established in dry-film days with photon efficiencies of a percent or two, and ISO 400 was high, this is implying a photon efficiency of around 30%. Which is good, but is also territory that astronomers have generations of playing with. Using dry-ice chilled, hydrogen-hypered and nitrogen-purged dry film, it should be said.
Crazy. Like a fox. Kit?
Certain foot-heads might take this as evidence that cats could be considered honourary foxes.
I’ll get some wood and drive a steak into the ground.
A steak? The foxes’ll come running!
What about beak-heads?
Squid are cephalopods (cephalos = head ; pod / podes = foot) ; some cephalopods (including some squid) have “beak-converging” jaw structures, but not all of them. There are cephalopods with whom a certain PZiddly One could choose to identify which don’t have beaks. Any slug, for example.
All good stuff thanks, but I see how I was misleading in my deliberately cryptic comment.
I was thinking of the Tuatara. You might be able to synthesize the name of its Order yourself, from its translation – beak-head, assuming you don’t already know it.
tuatara … Rynchy-something-iddy(-aiea and some randomly selected other vowels). OK. So we’re going to go for polylinguistic puns, as well as anagrams in any order you want. I’ll just pop off to the armoury to get a gauntlet that will make a proper clank as it hits the ground.
Baby foxes are called ‘kits’
We had a family of foxes here on the UW-Madison campus construct a couple dens right on a heavily-trafficked street. I loved to watch them romp in the evenings — here’s one video I shot of them:
youtube.com/watch?v=66bwy7b-8Uo
All thing UW-foxful at vanhisefoxes.tumblr.com.
FOXES!!! ( remember Steve Martin and the Czechoslovakian plyboys?)
Wonderful video, Rick!! Thanks. Hope they don’t get run over…
Sadly, the fox kits’ father did, in fact, fall to an automobile about 5 miles west of the den. That was one harassed-looking mom as she fed the Pile O’ Kits. But on campus, it was wonderful to see just how careful the drivers were on Linden. Big ol’ Metro buses stopping, traffic backing up, nobody cared ’cause…FOXES!
Oh, how sad. Did they put up a Fox Crossing sign?
Such beautiful animals!
I can never get enough of watching animals play–toward the end of your vid one of the kits seems to do a somersault just for the fun of it. 🙂