OOH HOO HOO HEE HEE THAT’S HILARIOUS HA HA HA HA QUITIT THAT TICKLES HEE HEE HEE HOO HOO I LOVE MY CHICKEN HAR HAR HAR… HEE… HOO HEE… (contented sigh)
My sides hurt from just watching that, Murray C. (via Reshareworthy. This is a rescued black fox, and according to its owner all the “laughing” noises indicate happiness.)
And it says he’s not a wild fox, but a domesticated one. I thought that was interesting. There were some black foxes used for some kind of DNA? experiment I heard about a while ago. Wonder if there’s some connection.
That rings a bell – I think there was an article in National Geographic or Smithsonian…?
It was in NatGeo, about Russian foxes specifically bred to be muskless as pets. Beautiful images.
Help .. Help .. I’m being repressed!!
Ah, now we see the hilariousness inherent in the system! Come and see the hilariousness inherent in the system!
Bloody pleasant!!
He’s so fluffy!
For laughing out loud! That. Is. wonderful! And the inside the ear scratching ooo and aging….
The song is wrong, the fox says HA HA HA HA HA!
OMG Gigi–that was the first thing I thought of too! The fox says HAHAHAHA.
What the frig???? That is just peculiar!
You hadn’t seen it before? It was all the rage a few years ago.
As I’ve had to tell folks here – somewhat to my embarrassment – I am so far outside the popular culture loop it ain’t funny. It is a choice for the most part, especially where music is concerned.
I’m even farther out, couldn’t watch this all the way through.
Peculiar is the word.
I lasted 30 seconds.
Me, too, Murray, me, too! Even when I was a teenager, which didn’t do much for my popularity! :b
Yes, I was a folkie through and through. And when I say “folkie” I don’t mean Peter Paul
and Mary or the other revival groups, tho’ I learned a lot from certain ones of them. I’m hardcore! People most haven’t even heard of. I liked the Beatles but I wasn’t a “fan” in the starry-eyed, scream sense – I’ve never really been that kind of fan. And while I recognize certain songs from those days I have no idea for the most part who is singing them. I’m also a big fan of Tin Pan Alley – there was so much wit in so many of those songs.
🙂 🙂 🙂 Murray C. Was all a-blasting the Cole Porter’s Night and Day version sung by Doris Day earlier this eve. Annnnd I do not care about the ‘popular’ impression of her– Doris Day could sing and phrase a song almost…almost as good as Peggy Lee.
Nice – and, yes, she was very good and from such an early age.
To give you an idea of what a geek I was, I plunked out ALL of Beguine the Beguine on our old upright when I was about 12. I could only read the melody line and I slowly and painstakingly made my way through and can still sing it today.
Students got me to play it at the beginning of class only twice, I think, because I couldn’t regain control of myself to teach. When the musicians/comedians went on Ellen’s show, they had to show her how to make the fox sound correctly. Thank dog for the Internet.
Foxes also make interesting ‘chattering’ noises (different from “gekking”. When a fox makes a gekking noise it’s a sign of ‘keep your mitts off, this is MINE): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7tThIC42xQ
What a gorgeous face that little fox has!
My grandkids have a Kid CD with this song on it. I swear the kid version is even more annoying than the original. They have to listen to it all the time. Another song on it is Stinky Feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9jVdcdjDcg
The noises stop whenever he’s not holding the chicken– are we sure it isn’t the chicken making the noises…?
Watching it again it seems like it is the chicken making the sounds. But I think I might’ve heard some contented puppy snuffles in there.
He seems pretty happy either way.
I really really really want a fox.
Me too Me too!
That sound is almost as good as a cat madly purring.
Made me think of Snoopy laughing…
Yessss! 😀
I must be getting old, because this is what the Laughing Fox reminded me of:
I love it, Alice – I have a recording of this in my Music Hall archives. I’ve sung English Music Hall and was in a show of Music Hall for over 30 years.
This adorable critter reminds me: A few years ago there was a PBS “Nature” (about how wild wolves morphed into dogs that would bond w/ humans) that mentioned how captive black foxes who were naturally afraid of humans would sometimes have kits with white splotches on them, and along with this color mutation came an increase in tame behavior.
Not sure if these are the same foxes, but the original Russian experiment was breeding captive wild foxes, sorting the offspring by tameness, breeding the tamest to the tamest, and breeding the wildest to the wildest.
After remarkably few generations the tame line of foxes showed a lot more variation in things like coat color and markings and ear flexibility, similar to dogs, and the wild line were much more aggressive than the original wild ancestors, without any of the variation in markings.
Maybe some of the tame ones are also muskless, and now bred/sold as pets?
I just saw an article the other day about more elephants being born without tusks because of poaching. (The tuskless ones don’t get hunted and therefore make more tuskless babies.) Sad reason, but interesting how quickly a population can change.
That’s it, DB in LA!! Thanks for fixing my extremely lousy memory of this information. It was the other way around! But it’s still interesting that the tameness seemed to coincide with the variations in color/appearance.
Yes, that’s it. And I think the tail curled on the tamer ones????
Link to wikipedia article about the fox experiment below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox
Wikipedia article about the fox experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox