Rituals of politeness and playing out future scenarios – testimonies to culture in red foxes?

I am going through my subjective impressions phase in creating posts on wildlife issues. This post will concern red foxes. I have been watching many fox family videos from the spring/summer 2023 and as I was watching them, I believe I developed a certain sense of what it is I am seeing. That is to …

Badger popularity by other species – due to beneficial microbiota?

I have been reading on badger interactions with other species (such as foxes, racoon dogs, golden jackals etc.) and these interactions often involve commensal denning (other species utilizing abandoned badger setts or unused chambers of occupied badger setts) and feeding on the same site and at the same time. Badger setts are used, for example, …