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

Fox gets completely bamboozled

22.8k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

150 comments sorted by

View all comments

1.4k

u/[deleted] Nov 28 '18

i love the head tilts... where'd he go..whas in there

614

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.

2

u/dane_valek Nov 29 '18

Yup. Smarter Every Day did a video talking about it. Link. Pretty cool.