Yesterday’s post made we wonder if we even have foxes around here. We all know about the coyotes, we’ve seen and heard them a lot more than once. But foxes? I can’t recall anyone even mentioning them.
The Valles Caldera National Preserve is only a few miles from last Tuesday’s walk, so I checked to see if they mention gray foxes. (The pups were clearly not red foxes.) I was surprised that this report says personnel have occasionally seen them. But they’re clearly not as ubiquitous as the coyotes, who are listed as one of the main attractions for wildlife viewers.
Was this worth the time I spent looking for that answer? I think so. In this case the answer itself wasn’t that important, but sometimes it is. There have been times that the internet has been a real blessing for Andy and me. And it takes practice to find reliable information. Plus it’s healthy to be curious, ask questions, and look for answers.
The internet is my window to the world.
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The Internet helps people make friends too.
God bless.
Yes, most of my friends are there. 🙂
There has only been one time I could not find information on the internet…and I think it was/is cause the thing I was looking for for my boss just isn’t done. I am always looking up something on the internet that I need to know how to do or what it means…
It’s a godsend. 🙂
There ARE more Red Foxes than grey. And grey foxes can climb trees because they have rotating ankles. Red Foxes cannot.
The gray ones also have claws for climbing. They’re impressive. I didn’t know about the ankles. 🙂
P.S. Being that the grey have the advantage of being able to climb trees, you would think that they would be the more prevalent breed!
I’ll explain that in a future post.
How fortunate we are, not hearing our parents say, “Look it up!” or worse, deposit us at the Public library. Research isn’t so bad, provided I can do it in my pj’s. (lol)
I read books on my iPad. I love that I can quickly use the internet to look up an unfamiliar word I just read and learn something new.
Yes! 🙂
Yes, the internet can be a valuable source of information as long as you know how to distinguish what is really true from the not so true. Sure beats all the research we used to have do when we were in school to find information for term papers and such.
Amen to that!
Feeling fortunate I’m no longer told (to go) “look it up” … or worse, have to sit in the public library. I enjoy researching — provided I can do so in my pj’s!
I love being able to decide what I learn. 🙂
I’ve never seen a gray fox here, just those pretty red ones.
I’ve never seen either the red or the gray. I focused on the gray ones because the pups we were talking about were clearly not red. The Valles Caldera website says they are “probably present”, which I assume no one has seen one.
yay to the Internet and locating all kinds of information
And a wonderful window it is. I look through it often myself.
I ask my phone questions many times a day, even while watching a movie. bob doens’t do internet but he asked me to. he will say dial in what happened to John Force, he is a drag racer that almost died in a race last week. I always laugh when he says dial in, that is how buried in the past he is. if I fell down while we were walking, he would not be able to use my phone to call for help
I spend many hours on research and/or looking up how to do something