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8 thoughts on “Yesterday a fox trots through the yard…”
I think your first guess was correct that it was a fox as our Cape Ann Wolfotes like to eat the whole thing.
If you google “why do foxes eat the rabbit head and leave the body?” and there are hundreds of hits. This might be conformational bias since one needs to do all the rest of the google searches putting coywolf or “why does Joey bite the head off the rabbit and leave the body?” (no hits!)
That is one large rabbit so it would take a decent sized and healthy fox to snap the neck of that rabbit. From reading the first google search it seems that the typical fox kill is to snap the neck and shake which often leads to the head popping off. Why they then would carry off the head and leave the body is a mystery. Zombie Foxes walking around? “Brains! Rabbit Brains!”
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Coyote?
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it looks like a coyote
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a hard life lesson for the kids…
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Why did you kill it?
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for the fur, duh…
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I think your first guess was correct that it was a fox as our Cape Ann Wolfotes like to eat the whole thing.
If you google “why do foxes eat the rabbit head and leave the body?” and there are hundreds of hits. This might be conformational bias since one needs to do all the rest of the google searches putting coywolf or “why does Joey bite the head off the rabbit and leave the body?” (no hits!)
That is one large rabbit so it would take a decent sized and healthy fox to snap the neck of that rabbit. From reading the first google search it seems that the typical fox kill is to snap the neck and shake which often leads to the head popping off. Why they then would carry off the head and leave the body is a mystery. Zombie Foxes walking around? “Brains! Rabbit Brains!”
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Not a nice thing o see first thing in the morning!
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I just lost my appetite.
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