Foxes have been the baddies of children’s tales since the Ancient Greeks. This has made it easier to hunt and torment them – but how much of the myth is based in fact? What would the fox say if she told her own story?Shapeshifter, swindler and devil’s minion: the red fox is in urgent need of good PR. For thousands of years, the fox has played the villain of folk tales and legends, from Aesop’s fables to Beatrix Potter.How many animals have had their (alleged) misdeeds immortalised by both a noun (a crafty, cunning person) and a verb (to deceive, mislead and outwit)? “Weasel” and “rat” share this dubious distinction. Informally, the fox has leant its name to an adjective, too – foxy – used to describe an attractive woman, but not necessarily one to be trusted.The Little Black Fish and other stories: Iranian illustrated children's books – in picturesView galleryThe more I saw foxes in the streets where I lived, the more I questioned the popular myths that surrounded them: fox as child-snatcher, cat-muncher, vermin. Fox as scourge of the countryside.The truth is, we’d got it wrong. Foxes are social animals that pair bond, often for life. Despite a rogues’ gallery of villainous vulpines, they’re usually the victims of a brutal human world.
Why did you post an article of it massacring a bunch of penguins right after this thread?
Don't you get that everyone here hates foxes?
Quote from: ソレノイド on November 10, 2015, 09:53:42 AMDon't you get that everyone here hates foxes?Are you speaking for me nigga?
Quote from: DemonicChronic on November 10, 2015, 10:04:41 AMQuote from: ソレノイド on November 10, 2015, 09:53:42 AMDon't you get that everyone here hates foxes?Are you speaking for me nigga? yep
I don't hate foxes, just the fact that sep7agon is 65% fox images pisses me off. We get it, you like foxes.
Why it’s time for the red fox to have some good PR
