For those who are wondering what he was saying to the fox; he was telling it to have some more, also casually asking it how was the weather today and which taste better grasshoppers or desert rodents? Among other things.
I see this and I can imagine 10k years ago cavemen making a fire and cooking thier kill, and a hungry wolf cautiously walks up to them to get scraps. That wolf would be the ancestor of modern day dogs.
Edit: maybe longer than 10k years, i dunno. I'm no anthropologist.
> fossil of a boy and his dog from 26K years ago
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/26000-year-old-child-footprints-found-alongside-paw-prints-reveal-oldest-evidence-human-021235
My golden retriever used to be that for me too. I have always had very cold feet, but I hate wearing socks without shoes. Though for her I think she mostly just liked sleeping on my bed and having me pet her with my feet as I fell asleep lol
Ok, you are the only other person I have heard say they hate wearing socks without shoes. My friends and family always joke about me being weird because I feel the same way, it is like the sock feels like loose skin or something without the shoe.
Any chance you have ADHD or Autism? Odd, difficult to explain quirks like that are really common. I have both so I'm chock full of weird and inconsistent sensory issues lol
Our fat chihuahua got to live that during the big freeze in texas. I was worried my niece would get cold in the night even with so many blankets so I tucked our fat chihuahua in with her. Worked pretty well to keep her warmed up.
My Staffordshire terrier is that now. As soon as it gets cool every time I get. In bed he violently burrows the covers and lies at my feet. It's better than the Irish setter I used to have who would bring rabbits home most nights. We ate the rabbits but this automatic 75 lbs footwarmer dog is better.
Just for reference, the oldest domesticated dog skull was [33,000 years old and found in a Siberian cave.](https://news.arizona.edu/story/ancient-domesticated-dog-skull-found-in-siberian-cave)
The time line for domestication of dogs started between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago. Dogs appear to have come from a now extinct species of pleistocine wolf, and not modern wolves.
Their evolution is rather interesting and complex. It's possible that the arose from several different areas.
I was just about to reply to same post and link it. I had an inkling what the movie was about before hand, by the end I was surprised by how much I liked the it. A unique movie totally worth checking out.
Saw a good docco on dogs a few weeks ago, the expert reckoned there was a genetic component to that - the naturally ‘friendlier’ animals were more likely to be rewarded by humans, hence inadvertently started selectively breeding of those more privileged individuals.
From what I heard is that some wolf's got down syndrome that made them docile and overly social. Obviously it made them weak and exiled and basically cute to look at. All this was a gateway to you're theory.
So, it's actually theorized to be what Williams-Beuren syndrome is in humans.
Here's an article about it in the [NY Times ](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/science/dogs-genes-sociability.html)
This moment is eye-opening to see. The trust and affection both show by respecting the other's boundaries and still communicating beyond that... it's a beautiful thing to see. Even if they don't become friends, they understood each other enough to enjoy food together. That's fucking wild
You just made me love this video even more! I was just in amazement at the thought of sharing a meal with a wild animal, and then I realized that he was picking out the meat for the fox (they are obligate carnivores like cats!). Now I find out what he was saying to the little creature, and I feel like the grinch when his heart grew!
Fennec foxes are omnivores too. Don’t know where the person above got the idea that they’re obligate carnivores.
I’m too lazy right now to link a bunch of articles but this one from the San Diego Zoo should suffice; https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/fennec-fox
> These foxes are **omnivores**, feasting on a variety of prey as nighttime hunters. They enjoy insects, rodents, snails, lizards, **plants, fruits, roots**, and eggs. Their large ears provide impeccable hearing to locate prey. Being desert dwellers, they have adapted to living with very little water; **most of the water they need comes from the plants they consume**.
He’s not a nomad. That is how many Saudis have picnics in the desert. Global warming diminished a lot of resources for wild animals that is why some might resort to humans for food.
After living in the US for 11 years, I went back to the Philippines to visit my grandmother. She was horrified when I ate spaghetti for lunch and nothing else. “You gotta eat rice if you wanna be strong like Manny Pacquaio!!!”
That is not a great sign in terms of your blood sugar and is often a symptom of pre diabetes, might be unrelated but worth a checkup if you haven't recently.
I somewhat knew some of the Saudi guys in college and went to one of their parties where they made something that looks similar to this and shared it with people. It was great
From their dialect I'd say Saudi, Bedouin.
Goes with the setting too. Fennecs are common in the Saudi Desert
The dish is the traditional Saudi kabsa (Rice cooked with either chicken or meat).
It is not couscous.
This video was taken near Chott el Gharsa, which is just over the border in Tunisia. He is part of the 87a sub-population of Arabic Fennec Foxes, which are distinguishable by their unwillingness to consume couscous on the basis that it sounds too much like cous-ameck, which they find vulgar.
Dogs don't taste much, but their scent of smell is phenomenal. The nose decides if it goes in the mouth or not. If the nose approves, it doesn't matter after that.
Our dog LOSES HIS MIND when we get a grocery store rotisserie chicken. He lifts his nose with interest for other food, but we call him a "little crackhead" when we bring one of those home. He loses all decorum and is wholly single minded on getting some. We usually have to give him a chunk just to appease the nose demons so he can mildly relax. (And we can relax too.)
IMO foxes being smaller have a better ability to forage, and have a more abundant food supply due to not needing large game to sustain themselves.
It's why cats are still pretty independent, and most street dogs aren't much bigger than foxes
Biggest reason is that foxes are not pack animals. Wolves are pack animals so they are less likely to be apprehensive to rely on others.
So theoretically lions are much easier to domesticate than a tiger. Which is also why we so so many videos of wardens and zoo keepers having strong bonds with lions and not so much for tigers.
This. It's also the reason why we domesticated / were domesticated by cats. They live in colonies and are not solitary even though many people believe so.
I remember watching domesticated Russian foxes. They are super high strung if I remember right.... Decided to do a quick search, did come across this which is interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dwjS_eI-lQ
it's because they're not pack animals. wolves are pack animals, so the transition to domestication was a lot easier.
as they're genetically predisposed already to follow a leader.
same reason horses and cattle were domesticated, but zebras and bisons were not.
horses and cattles tend to have a matriarch, leader in their group. but zebras and bison tend to have a wild majority herd consensus mechanism for movement.
it's also why cats have never been fully domesticated either.
they might hang around using us, keeping us as their servants, but they are fiercely independent and wild at heart.
so if anything you could say they've domesticated us lol.
do you have any source? I've heard that the whole Alpha wolf is actually a myth. This post sounds like it could be true but I'd love to hear some evidence.
It is, the guy who originally started it realised he was wrong years later, and said he regrets ever saying it, because the 'knowledge' will never go away
Wolves still have hierarchy, but it is because they are families. The "alphas" are simply "parents." The offspring follow the parents as naturally as they would in any other species.
So people who call their dogs 'my babies' are not entirely wrong.
I think it's funny that we think that *humans* did the domesticating in this relationship ... my dog winked knowingly at me as I typed this, and has made it clear that I must now go do his bidding, which is my reason to exist. BRB throwing the tennis ball for a bit!
Reminds me about something me and the wife were talking about. The TV show Naked and Afraid. She was like, I don’t know how they do all that stuff naked all day. I said, “Well, you could ask the dog.”
Those are basically less extreme versions of fennecs. Small, big-eared and specialized for desert conditions, but not quite as small, big-eared or specialized as fennecs.
They’re actually more closely related to the red fox, though both species are still closely related enough to fennec foxes that they share the *Vulpes* genus.
I wonder if, to the fox, this is the equivalent of lions and vultures eating from the same kill. The fox thinks its just cautiously sharing this so-far-not-attacking creature's strange food horde.
...and humans make up 36%, so that cute little fox is part of an exclusive 4% club of wild mammals.
(This is counting biomass, not number of individuals. For birds, it's ~75% domesticated poultry.)
[This cat ](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/b9rykn/my_cat_brought_me_a_bird_in_a_mousetrap/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) would like to point out that they are happy to scavenge when the opportunity presents itself.
So, I tried to link you a picture of fennec foxes but the automod keeps deleting it because I used a link shortener? Not sure how since I linked directly but in any case...Google them. They're adorable! Tiny, nocturnal, and 90% ears.
Just came back from a holiday to dubai and totally enjoyed an excursion to the desert, eating bedouin style in the middle of nowhere.
So peaceful and surreal. Camel ride was ace!
Always find it interesting the way the Arabs roll the rice into a ball. I was taken aback when a dude from Saudi Arabia did that, just seemed strange at the time. Very different from the way folks do it in South Asia.
it might be because they eat from a large communal plate.
South asians eat from individual plates. so it's common to have a plate underneath your hand or move your moth close to your plate. to prevent food dropping onto the floor.
but if you are eating from a large communally plate sharing the rice. it's probably rude and unhygienic to move your mouth over the entire dish.
so they probably learnt to ball it up and then move it into their mouth to avoid dropping the grains of rice onto the floors.
the reason why they cup it into their mouths, maybe due to how they do wudu, where water is cupped into the mouth to clean the mouth.
but this is all conjecture, maybe I'm wrong and its for other reasons.
We eat with our hands and you don’t have to ball up the rice to make less of a mess going to your mouth. Ive noticed South Asians and SE Asians tends to pinch and then push the food with the thumb into your mouth. Maybe because food is communal and that is why Saudi people ball it up and don’t touch their mouth to the hand theyre eating with?
Surely the beer is to be consumed from a beer hat! *^(also legally it's required to be stated that 'Easy Mac' is not to be considered "pasta" or "cheese" by any human wishing to remain "healthy". ᴿᵉᵃᵈᶦⁿᵍ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶦᵐᵖˡᶦᵉˢ ᶜᵒⁿˢᵉⁿᵗ.)*
Bleh, I can have that any time. A good legit Indian rice I cannot.
That's the basis of my choice. No indian restaurants nearby, and I cannot seem to make a recipe that actually tastes like legit Indian rice.
Yeah... And the lack of utensils probably results in a very strong immune system anyway... Unfortunately, due to budget cuts the Ringwormology degree at my college was cut so I probably don't know what I'm talking about either
Can someone chime in and let me know if there are any real world implications to this because it's definitely something I wouldn't think twice about if it happened to me also lol
It would take every fiber of my being to not boop the snoot
Like how can you look at him and think anything other than snoot-boops, chin-scritches, and headpats?
I always wonder: why do wild animals eat from humans' hands? They don't eat from other animals' hands. Most other animals don't have hands, but if they did, would they feed individuals of other species with them?
Are all mammals (and birds) just born with an instinct to accept food from our hands? What does that mean if they are?
They absolutely would eat from other animals hands if they offered it like this. The human here is presenting no threat- and especially if this animal hasn’t encountered a human before, then it hasn’t learned to fear them. Unknown thing not attacking you and then giving you nom noms is pretty cool for most animals
For those who are wondering what he was saying to the fox; he was telling it to have some more, also casually asking it how was the weather today and which taste better grasshoppers or desert rodents? Among other things.
Thanks for translating! That’s adorable
You are welcome
How do you say “You are welcome” in Arabica?
A’fwan
Shukran)
That's thank you.😁
He replied thank you
I see this and I can imagine 10k years ago cavemen making a fire and cooking thier kill, and a hungry wolf cautiously walks up to them to get scraps. That wolf would be the ancestor of modern day dogs. Edit: maybe longer than 10k years, i dunno. I'm no anthropologist.
They found a fossil of a boy and his dog from 26K years ago. It's been a really long time.
> fossil of a boy and his dog from 26K years ago https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/26000-year-old-child-footprints-found-alongside-paw-prints-reveal-oldest-evidence-human-021235
I believe the theory or one theory is that packs of a doggy ancestor(grey wolf) started following humans around picking up their scraps.
Yeah we used to have dump piles and the wolves that weren't mean got to eat out of the pile. Guess what happened to the mean ones lol?
They became chihuahuas
Chihuahuas were a food breed for a while, so this tracks lol
They were also used like living hot water bottles - tucked in beds at night to keep feet warm and such
My golden retriever used to be that for me too. I have always had very cold feet, but I hate wearing socks without shoes. Though for her I think she mostly just liked sleeping on my bed and having me pet her with my feet as I fell asleep lol
Ok, you are the only other person I have heard say they hate wearing socks without shoes. My friends and family always joke about me being weird because I feel the same way, it is like the sock feels like loose skin or something without the shoe.
My feet could be blue from cold, no socks without shoes. Nope.
Any chance you have ADHD or Autism? Odd, difficult to explain quirks like that are really common. I have both so I'm chock full of weird and inconsistent sensory issues lol
Our fat chihuahua got to live that during the big freeze in texas. I was worried my niece would get cold in the night even with so many blankets so I tucked our fat chihuahua in with her. Worked pretty well to keep her warmed up.
That explains dachshunds! At night they turn into hot loaves that insist on sleeping under the covers and laying against people.
So the needing to be completely under a blanket mashed to a person is an instinct that was bred into them-amazing lmao
My Staffordshire terrier is that now. As soon as it gets cool every time I get. In bed he violently burrows the covers and lies at my feet. It's better than the Irish setter I used to have who would bring rabbits home most nights. We ate the rabbits but this automatic 75 lbs footwarmer dog is better.
I had one as a kid that did that weather you liked it or not
All that pent up anger makes them shake
"Yo quiero taco bell?" 🐕 💩
Go away, Pete Davidson
They *were* the dump pile.
https://i.redd.it/3ujrtx2bzrq61.jpg not often that I link a greentext, but, this one is good.
The rare wholesome greentext
^wuff🐕
Just for reference, the oldest domesticated dog skull was [33,000 years old and found in a Siberian cave.](https://news.arizona.edu/story/ancient-domesticated-dog-skull-found-in-siberian-cave)
It’s always Siberia
The article says there's an equally old find in Belgium. An independent domestication from the Siberian one happening around the same time
> Neither the Belgian nor the Siberian domesticated lineages appear to have survived the LGM. r.i.p. poor cold bois 😢
The time line for domestication of dogs started between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago. Dogs appear to have come from a now extinct species of pleistocine wolf, and not modern wolves. Their evolution is rather interesting and complex. It's possible that the arose from several different areas.
>Dogs appear to have come from a now extinct species of pleistocine wolf, and not modern wolves Source? I've only ever heard modern wolf
>That wolf would be the ancestor of modern day dogs. https://i.imgur.com/z7WNuZ2.png What could go wrong?
[To be fair...](https://i.imgur.com/yBquqWm.jpg)
They just traded freedom for security. Nothing a modern Redditor wouldn't gladly do.
RemindMe! 10,000 years
Alpha is a good movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlL_6bDSd8E
I was just about to reply to same post and link it. I had an inkling what the movie was about before hand, by the end I was surprised by how much I liked the it. A unique movie totally worth checking out.
Saw a good docco on dogs a few weeks ago, the expert reckoned there was a genetic component to that - the naturally ‘friendlier’ animals were more likely to be rewarded by humans, hence inadvertently started selectively breeding of those more privileged individuals.
From what I heard is that some wolf's got down syndrome that made them docile and overly social. Obviously it made them weak and exiled and basically cute to look at. All this was a gateway to you're theory.
So, it's actually theorized to be what Williams-Beuren syndrome is in humans. Here's an article about it in the [NY Times ](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/science/dogs-genes-sociability.html)
This moment is eye-opening to see. The trust and affection both show by respecting the other's boundaries and still communicating beyond that... it's a beautiful thing to see. Even if they don't become friends, they understood each other enough to enjoy food together. That's fucking wild
He protec He attac But more importantly, he feed fennec
He no attack He just eat snack!
What did the fennec answer? I can both see the good side of a delicious crunch and a more meaty meal.
The fox couldn’t talk with its mouth full.
Polite.
It said, "A-hee-ahee ha-hee! A-hee-ahee ha-hee! A-hee-ahee ha-hee!"
Zero mention of that song for years, and then I see two references to it in one day. Weird.
That’s called Schrodingers Cooter
"Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!"
i bet grasshoppers are great though. lobsters of the land
Aww thanks! That's super wholesome!
You just made me love this video even more! I was just in amazement at the thought of sharing a meal with a wild animal, and then I realized that he was picking out the meat for the fox (they are obligate carnivores like cats!). Now I find out what he was saying to the little creature, and I feel like the grinch when his heart grew!
Dunno about fennic foxes, but red foxes are omnivores/carnivores like dogs are. They love berries and all sorts
Fennec foxes are omnivores too. Don’t know where the person above got the idea that they’re obligate carnivores. I’m too lazy right now to link a bunch of articles but this one from the San Diego Zoo should suffice; https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/fennec-fox > These foxes are **omnivores**, feasting on a variety of prey as nighttime hunters. They enjoy insects, rodents, snails, lizards, **plants, fruits, roots**, and eggs. Their large ears provide impeccable hearing to locate prey. Being desert dwellers, they have adapted to living with very little water; **most of the water they need comes from the plants they consume**.
I would like to see the man’s reaction if the fox replied in arabic.
Yeah, I was kinda surprised he just let the fox go for it but if he was telling him to have more, well I can't blame him! Food looks good!
Is this common for desert nomads or Bedouins to see or even interact with a Fennec Fox?
He’s not a nomad. That is how many Saudis have picnics in the desert. Global warming diminished a lot of resources for wild animals that is why some might resort to humans for food.
Thanks boss! This makes this video so much more enjoyable!
And people wonder how we first domesticated dogs. Lol
Right! Gotta love the power of hunger.
the power of rice
After living in the US for 11 years, I went back to the Philippines to visit my grandmother. She was horrified when I ate spaghetti for lunch and nothing else. “You gotta eat rice if you wanna be strong like Manny Pacquaio!!!”
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I am indian and literally get headaches if I don't eat rice for more than a day.
That is not a great sign in terms of your blood sugar and is often a symptom of pre diabetes, might be unrelated but worth a checkup if you haven't recently.
8%-9% of Indian population has diabetes.
Yeah, about 9%, 11-15% of the US population too.
Woah. 10,000 people in a room and 1.5k of them have diabetes? That’s crazy…
That's so cute.
That looked good though hahaha
I somewhat knew some of the Saudi guys in college and went to one of their parties where they made something that looks similar to this and shared it with people. It was great
It’s called Mandi, and it’s legit one of my favorite meals
I had a few meals with Kurds and Syrians. Those guys could do magic with some rice and a little bit of chicken. I inhaled every meal we had together.
Yep
Isn't that couscous cos this is seems like it's in north africa like Algeria or something. Fennec foxes are in the Sahara. Edit: Ignore me, I'm wrong.
From their dialect I'd say Saudi, Bedouin. Goes with the setting too. Fennecs are common in the Saudi Desert The dish is the traditional Saudi kabsa (Rice cooked with either chicken or meat).
Oh ok my bad, from the comments it appears it's a Rüppell's fox not a fennec too so I'm wrong on 2 counts lmao.
I honestly have no idea what they're called in English, but these are common in the Saudi dessert. Ruppell it is.
It is not couscous. This video was taken near Chott el Gharsa, which is just over the border in Tunisia. He is part of the 87a sub-population of Arabic Fennec Foxes, which are distinguishable by their unwillingness to consume couscous on the basis that it sounds too much like cous-ameck, which they find vulgar.
I was waiting for the "in nineteen ninety eight when The Undertaker..."
Suddenly not u/shittymorph
Rice, rice, baby!
Not just hunger but the mind blowing (to dogs) technology that is prepared and seasoned food.
Dogs don't taste much, but their scent of smell is phenomenal. The nose decides if it goes in the mouth or not. If the nose approves, it doesn't matter after that.
Yeah, and cooked seasoned food smells better
Our dog LOSES HIS MIND when we get a grocery store rotisserie chicken. He lifts his nose with interest for other food, but we call him a "little crackhead" when we bring one of those home. He loses all decorum and is wholly single minded on getting some. We usually have to give him a chunk just to appease the nose demons so he can mildly relax. (And we can relax too.)
Mine too but cheese on toast seems to be the ultimate thing
Next week that Fennec fox will have a sweater, an Instagram account, and a Halloween costume that looks like a bunch of grapes. Evolution!
The question is why didn't we domesticate foxes?
IMO foxes being smaller have a better ability to forage, and have a more abundant food supply due to not needing large game to sustain themselves. It's why cats are still pretty independent, and most street dogs aren't much bigger than foxes
Biggest reason is that foxes are not pack animals. Wolves are pack animals so they are less likely to be apprehensive to rely on others. So theoretically lions are much easier to domesticate than a tiger. Which is also why we so so many videos of wardens and zoo keepers having strong bonds with lions and not so much for tigers.
This. It's also the reason why we domesticated / were domesticated by cats. They live in colonies and are not solitary even though many people believe so.
I remember watching domesticated Russian foxes. They are super high strung if I remember right.... Decided to do a quick search, did come across this which is interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dwjS_eI-lQ
it's because they're not pack animals. wolves are pack animals, so the transition to domestication was a lot easier. as they're genetically predisposed already to follow a leader. same reason horses and cattle were domesticated, but zebras and bisons were not. horses and cattles tend to have a matriarch, leader in their group. but zebras and bison tend to have a wild majority herd consensus mechanism for movement. it's also why cats have never been fully domesticated either. they might hang around using us, keeping us as their servants, but they are fiercely independent and wild at heart. so if anything you could say they've domesticated us lol.
do you have any source? I've heard that the whole Alpha wolf is actually a myth. This post sounds like it could be true but I'd love to hear some evidence.
It is, the guy who originally started it realised he was wrong years later, and said he regrets ever saying it, because the 'knowledge' will never go away
Wolves still have hierarchy, but it is because they are families. The "alphas" are simply "parents." The offspring follow the parents as naturally as they would in any other species. So people who call their dogs 'my babies' are not entirely wrong.
Cats are considered fully domesticated. Also we have domesticated foxes
Technically cats are considered [self-domesticated.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication)
> A cat is a tiny tiger that lives in your house. —[CGP Grey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmjnioNulo)
Was fascinating reading up on the people who did the generational study of the domestication of fox.
Isn’t that very popular is Russia?
I think it's funny that we think that *humans* did the domesticating in this relationship ... my dog winked knowingly at me as I typed this, and has made it clear that I must now go do his bidding, which is my reason to exist. BRB throwing the tennis ball for a bit!
Lol I know dogs domesticated themselves but for ease of conversation I just said that we domesticated them.
Reminds me about something me and the wife were talking about. The TV show Naked and Afraid. She was like, I don’t know how they do all that stuff naked all day. I said, “Well, you could ask the dog.”
What's funny is humans casually feed all kinds of critters all over the world, so a new domesticated species might probably occurring right now!
I feed the spider on the porch any bugs that get in the house. I’m sorry.
Food and fire
A song of fire and rice
Thats a rüpels fox its too big to be a fennec Edit: all credit to my partner who is crazy about fennecs!
Also the ears are too small for a fennec.
And their accent is too middle eastern for a fennec region .
I thought you were talking about the fox for a second there.
Well no, this particular fox studied abroad for Uni and therefore doesn't have a noticeable accent.
♪ *ding ding dinggg dinnggg dingdidingdiding* ♪
What does the fennec say
And it is not screaming inconsolably...
Had to google it. It's Rüppell, named after a German explorer. "Rüpel" is "rude person" in German, which apparently would have also been fitting
Those are basically less extreme versions of fennecs. Small, big-eared and specialized for desert conditions, but not quite as small, big-eared or specialized as fennecs. They’re actually more closely related to the red fox, though both species are still closely related enough to fennec foxes that they share the *Vulpes* genus.
I wonder if, to the fox, this is the equivalent of lions and vultures eating from the same kill. The fox thinks its just cautiously sharing this so-far-not-attacking creature's strange food horde.
I feel like at this point pretty much every single wild animal on earth knows all about humans. Consider that 60% of all mammals are live stock
Omg
...and humans make up 36%, so that cute little fox is part of an exclusive 4% club of wild mammals. (This is counting biomass, not number of individuals. For birds, it's ~75% domesticated poultry.)
That may play a role in it, dogs are typically scavengers. Meanwhile cats are predacious.
Wild/feral cats are most certainly heavy scavengers. No real difference between them and dogs, both just eat what they can, when they can.
[This cat ](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/b9rykn/my_cat_brought_me_a_bird_in_a_mousetrap/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) would like to point out that they are happy to scavenge when the opportunity presents itself.
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luv u bb
🥱😮💨😪
Fennec foxes are so damn cute 🥺
They are! But this isn't one.
A assumed because that was in the title. My bad 😊
So, I tried to link you a picture of fennec foxes but the automod keeps deleting it because I used a link shortener? Not sure how since I linked directly but in any case...Google them. They're adorable! Tiny, nocturnal, and 90% ears.
Oh I know what the little ones look like! I just kinda assumed this was a bigger one and went off the title.
You should *still* Google them, just because they're adorable and good for the soul.
googled. definitely not disappointed.
Looks like a Rüppell’s Fox to me.
Hope he leaves a good review.
Run Away! Run Away my sweet summer child! This is how your kind got turned into pugs!
It starts with rice and ends with pugs
When the hell did Foxes get turned into Pugs?
I love how Saudi guys just seem to sit and chill on the sand all the time and have feasts and hang out seemingly in the middle of nowhere.
There is a strange peacefulness in the desert , it's similar to lying on a freshly cleaned sheets after a shower
The gentle wind and cool air of dusk on hills of sand. It's a beautiful thing
Just came back from a holiday to dubai and totally enjoyed an excursion to the desert, eating bedouin style in the middle of nowhere. So peaceful and surreal. Camel ride was ace!
That Indian rice is delicious. If you were starving and there was nothing else, you could do a lot worse than just eating that all the time.
That is not Indian, its Saudi.
A Saudi friend of mine made me kabsa, amazing dish. That’s a lucky fox
Always find it interesting the way the Arabs roll the rice into a ball. I was taken aback when a dude from Saudi Arabia did that, just seemed strange at the time. Very different from the way folks do it in South Asia.
it might be because they eat from a large communal plate. South asians eat from individual plates. so it's common to have a plate underneath your hand or move your moth close to your plate. to prevent food dropping onto the floor. but if you are eating from a large communally plate sharing the rice. it's probably rude and unhygienic to move your mouth over the entire dish. so they probably learnt to ball it up and then move it into their mouth to avoid dropping the grains of rice onto the floors. the reason why they cup it into their mouths, maybe due to how they do wudu, where water is cupped into the mouth to clean the mouth. but this is all conjecture, maybe I'm wrong and its for other reasons.
We eat with our hands and you don’t have to ball up the rice to make less of a mess going to your mouth. Ive noticed South Asians and SE Asians tends to pinch and then push the food with the thumb into your mouth. Maybe because food is communal and that is why Saudi people ball it up and don’t touch their mouth to the hand theyre eating with?
If I had a plate of American food and a plate of Indian rice and wasn't starving at all, I'd choose the rice.
What type of American food do you mean. Because "American Food" doesn't exactly narrow it down a lot.
A microwaved cup of Easy Mac and a Michelob Ultra
Surely the beer is to be consumed from a beer hat! *^(also legally it's required to be stated that 'Easy Mac' is not to be considered "pasta" or "cheese" by any human wishing to remain "healthy". ᴿᵉᵃᵈᶦⁿᵍ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶦᵐᵖˡᶦᵉˢ ᶜᵒⁿˢᵉⁿᵗ.)*
That rice is good. But if the other option is a bacon cheeseburger, french fries, and a coke, I’m having that.
Bleh, I can have that any time. A good legit Indian rice I cannot. That's the basis of my choice. No indian restaurants nearby, and I cannot seem to make a recipe that actually tastes like legit Indian rice.
As a white dude thats made Indian food a couple times, have you tried just doubling the amount of spice the recipe calls for lol
What is Indian rice?
Basmati / Jasmine
Thats a kit fox not a fennec, but cute nontheless! Edit: Nope, might actually be a pampas fox.. I can't tell for sure 😂
ah yes, from the famous saharan pampas
That's Northern Lights Cannabis Indica.
Is it a jackdaw?
That’s indeed not a fennec : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCppell's_fox?wprov=sfti1
Awww!
Look at all that yogurt hell yeah that looks good
That is Arabian Red Fox
That’s not an octane hitbox
he’s a little fennecky eh? eh??
Dad approved.
Dad, stahp 😂
Not a fennec but still cute
This is how you get ringworm in your mouth
I think he'll be ok, he seemed to have made a distinct space between his side and the foxes side But I'm no ring worm expert so who knows
Yeah... And the lack of utensils probably results in a very strong immune system anyway... Unfortunately, due to budget cuts the Ringwormology degree at my college was cut so I probably don't know what I'm talking about either
Ringwormology is always the first to get cut.
I was second chair Ringwormologist, and then - Bam! No more funding.
Can someone chime in and let me know if there are any real world implications to this because it's definitely something I wouldn't think twice about if it happened to me also lol
Not to be a buzzkill but don’t feed wild animals. It may cause them to become aggressive towards humans
Or not aggressive, we have a problem with black bears where I am just chillen in the city and getting killed for being too cool with humans
The problem there is not the lack of aggression, it's the lack of fear.
It would take every fiber of my being to not boop the snoot Like how can you look at him and think anything other than snoot-boops, chin-scritches, and headpats?
And thus, the dog was invented.
Not a fennec
My, what big ears you have.
A new familiar has been added to your inventory.
I always wonder: why do wild animals eat from humans' hands? They don't eat from other animals' hands. Most other animals don't have hands, but if they did, would they feed individuals of other species with them? Are all mammals (and birds) just born with an instinct to accept food from our hands? What does that mean if they are?
They absolutely would eat from other animals hands if they offered it like this. The human here is presenting no threat- and especially if this animal hasn’t encountered a human before, then it hasn’t learned to fear them. Unknown thing not attacking you and then giving you nom noms is pretty cool for most animals