Foxes are, I believe, synonymous with what blogger Steve Hardy calls ‘creative generalists’. They probably inhabit and seek to inhabit ecotones, as defined by blogger David Gessner (http://ecotoneblog.blogspot.com/), ‘places where borders are crossed, where both animals and humans live differently and more dangerously than on their own home turfs’. As the editor of Ecotone, Gessner admirably explores ecotones in human society and culture and describes those within them, often ‘isolatoes’ (citing Melville) who ‘pulse between retreat from and engagement with the world’.
'...features that help species to prevail through catastrophes need not be the sources of success in normal times.' -SJ Gould
13 January 2008
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