Menus Differ For City Foxes And Their Country Cousins
Monday, September 5, 2011 - 03:50
in Mathematics & Economics
The old saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure" may need to be rewritten for Bakersfield, California, where it turns out that "Everyone's trash is the foxes' treasure." This was discovered in a recent study seeking to quantify the extent to which urban-living San Joaquin kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis mutica) utilize anthropogenic food items.(What looks like trash to us seems like a buffet to scavengers and opportunistic feeders such as raccoons, opossums, gulls--and foxes.)read more