fox
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To investigate how cannabinoids influence fear and anxiety, researchers exposed mice to a threatening smell derived from fox urine.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The deer also reduce habitat and food sources for native birds and mammals, such as the endemic Catalina Island fox, Barton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Yet the ancient Greek poet Archilochus, who gave us the parable of the fox and the hedgehog, suggests that the hedgehog’s one big trick may defeat all the tricks the fox can try.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Among the highest-priced lots were paintings featuring The Clangers and Noggin the Nog, while a signed Basil Brush artwork, showing the cheerful fox chatting to a mole, sold for £6,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
While Duane walked to Handsome’s place, the fox bounced and ran and occasionally disappeared and reappeared beside him.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
True, in the nearly two decades that she’s been creating plush figures, she’s produced charmingly minimalistic foxes, cats and buffalo fit for a nursery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
As for the deer carcasses, some of the meat will feed endangered California condors, bald eagles and foxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
During breeding season—roughly late April through most of August—they nest in underground burrows on offshore islands where mammalian predators such as mink, rats and foxes can’t get at them or their young.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The charity said careful monitoring, in partnership with the farmers on whose land the birds nested, meant the nests were protected by fences to exclude ground predators such as foxes.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Cheek to cheek, the two foxes groomed each other.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
The thorny issue of the pedestrianisation of London's most famous shopping street had foxed mayoral administrations for years.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
All that remained of those days, apart from the stories, were these exotic bottles, their labels brittle and foxed.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
This is not good, but we have found reference to the circumstance that this book is usually — if not always — found in a foxed condition.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
Then Lionel Messi won the ball, foxed three opponents and passed.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2011
I wonder what he had in mind for you to do with it; as you couldn’t read it, I’m foxed as to what he was a thinking.”
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
In most cases, the originals were replaced with high-quality copies that mimicked even their foxing — a sign of a sophisticated operation.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
If a fox isn’t foxing, is she even a fox?
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2020
But foxing itself is likely to be less prevalent as manufacturing changes.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2017
While the blues lurk everywhere in Raitt’s work, she—like George—avoids taking long solos, instead foxing her slide work in and around and behind her vocals.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2016
His putting Hops into the Underback, is an excellent Contrivance to prevent foxing, as I have already hinted.
From The London and Country Brewer by Anonymous
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