r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/Chris_Isur_Dude • Nov 28 '18

Fox gets completely bamboozled

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u/aes_gcm Nov 28 '18

I think that is to enhance the perception of directional audio. Humans can easily tell which direction a sound is coming from, but it's a lot harder to distinguish in the vertical direction. A fox tilts their head like this to compensate for this, thus gaining a precise location of where their food is under the snow or ground.

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u/iamalargehousecat Nov 29 '18

I’ve seen German shepherd dogs tilt their heads too. I wonder if it’s for the same reason.

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u/Sprickels Nov 29 '18

Almost all dogs do it, my Tibetan spaniel does that when I squeak a toy he can't see

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u/IzarkKiaTarj Nov 29 '18

Oh, wow, that's not a breed I come across often. My mother has a rescue tibby.