Grey fox anatomy turns a dog‑shaped carnivore into a competent tree climber. Its claws are semi‑retractable, structurally closer to a cat’s than to a domestic dog’s blunt, permanently exposed nails, and that mechanical tweak changes how the animal loads each step on bark and branches.In typical canids, claws function mainly as traction spikes for cursorial locomotion on the ground, working with lo...
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