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Posts by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A How can a nine tailed fox catch its prey?

Need ideas for the fox's tails. In case you're wondering, this is for a speculative evolution book I'm doing which is suppose to build a structure for...

12 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A The creation of Fox-fire and illusions, for the nine-tailed fox

Since I'm getting plenty of great for my other question "How can a nine tailed fox catch its prey? Thought I might try to get ideas for both fox-fire and illusions. So far I've thought of biolumin...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A The growth and development of the fox's nine tails?

Just wondering both out of curiosity and something to add to my book, how do the nine tailed fox's dreads grow and developed? This is what I wrote so fa...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A How can a nine-tailed fox avoid the presence of humans?

Background- Writing a speculative evolution about the nine-tailed fox and had made twenty species that range in size from cat-sized species from Indonesia to wolf-sized ones in the Carpathian mount...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A A fossilised ninetails

Background I'm doing a prehistoric nine-tails which would be believed to the common ancestor of the kitsune, the kumiho and the huli jing and five more species I made up, this early specimen lives ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A Morphology of the nine tailed fox

Needs ideas for the reason for the different sizes for ninetailed foxes i Made up. . The Korean kumiho is sexual dimorphic as the males are big as a coyote while the vixens are as big as a red fox...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A Evolution of a sexual dimorphic, pack-hunting ninetails

Need ideas for the evolution of the kumiho, the Korean nine tailed fox that is native in the Korean peninsula. First of all, this species is sex...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A How can a ninetails shape-shift in a more natural illusionary way without magic or supernatural stuff?

I'm in the process of writing a speculative evolution book which is based on the natural history of the nine tailed foxes that suppose form a structure for a novel series I'm also doing (rather as ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A Defensive adaptations for lagomorphs

We all know how rabbits and hares escape ending up being a meal to a fox or a hawk, with long ears to hear danger coming, burrowing, long and powerful hind legs for speed and also living a social l...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A The Science of the Marsupilami

This just out of curiosity and interest, could something like the marsupilami exist in our world? If you don't know, the marsupilami is pretty much a bipedal, arboreal monkey like monotreme (egg-la...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A A mammalian equivalent of a pufferfish?

The Inflatable Hedgehog or Zamba Zaraa is a creature, reported from the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. It is described as looking something like a hedgehog. When threatened, the animal strikes its tail ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭

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Q&A A branch-mimicking snake?

Just out of curiosity, could a large constrictor such as a python or a boa evolve to rely on camouflaging itself as a branch, with the right colouration and positioning, in the jungle canopy and am...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Alexander R. Hunt‭