Did you know that the average fox in the wilderness can jump higher than a house?
It's true, but to be fair, the average house cannot jump.
But...jump up to New York City, where a red fox that somehow jumped onto a westbound ship was nabbed after he got here. Customs officers took him off to be re-homed, as the current expression for "adoption" has it.
He apparently boarded the ship in Southampton as part of a Titanic deception and is thought to be about two years of age.
He got here Wednesday, weighed in at 11 lbs, and now awaits more permanent quarters than what he's been given for now at the Bronx Zoo, whose spokesperson said, "The Zoo regularly works with officials to help rescue wildlife that is illegally trafficked through nearby ports and airports."
In Britain, they are called "urban foxes" because urban sprawl squeezed them out of their rural homes, and now they ride double-decker buses and eat fish and chips! There are tens of thousands of them darting through the streets, many of them walking the streets of Soho in the rain.
Oh wait, sorry. That was a wolf.
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