What are fluid ecotypes?

I’ll begin with a definition. Fluid ecotypes: those organisms living in an ecotone, a zone of transition. More than living, they are capable of successfully inhabiting such zones. These fluid ecotypes…can they be likened to generalists, or to Archilochus’s fox? I’m not sure yet. I thank a certain fluid ecotype for once introducing me to the fox metaphor. For more, see typology. Although ‘foxes’ have been increasingly punished in human society, which rewards over-specialization, I think that the zeitgeist is in transition. There may finally be forums where the hedgehog-like and the fox-like can meet, such as the Edge, where the fox-like can revel in their foxiness. Does there exist a hedgehog-fox mongrel? A continuum with fox and hedgehog on opposing sides? To what extent is the distribution skewed toward hedgehogs in Western society?

Are the ecotone-inhabiting in a class of their own? I believe that the answer to the latter is ‘yes’. I plan to ultimately devote this blog to them- be they monkeys or men.