Prof. Andrew Furman publishes "Fox" at Terrain

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Congratulations to Prof. Andrew Furman on publication of an essay, "Fox," at Terrain.org.

An excerpt from "Fox":

The thing about seeing a fox is that a fox doesn’t want to be seen. It took me a long time to see a fox in my asphalt-frosted region of South Florida. I knew that a small number of foxes eked out a living along some of the scruffier acres of my county, because signage at my local parks warn against feeding foxes and other wildlife, and because the sea turtle scientists and volunteers whom I chat up at the beach time to time have bemoaned the presence of foxes, who prize sea turtle eggs, and because, yeah, I finally managed to catch a precious glimpse of ginger fur and bottlebrush tail one evening at Yamato Scrub, a 217-acre natural center at the north end of my city. The sun was melting in the west while the fox melted into the shrubbery. This was a long time ago. So I’ve known that foxes were, in a general sense, here. Yet I never imagined that foxes might be seen in my neighborhood subdivision until my wife burst in the front door one recent evening, our daughter and our dog trailing behind, and shouted, “Guess what we saw?”   [ . . . ]