Why Grey Foxes Climb Like Cats
Grey fox anatomy quietly breaks the rulebook for wild canids in the Americas. Instead of the fixed, blunt claws seen in wolves and coyotes, grey foxes carry a compromise design: claws that can partially retract and forelimbs that behave more like those of small arboreal mammals than of ground runners.The key lies in a mix of musculoskeletal features that shift their locomotor biomechanics toward c...More
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