cystemic:

consular-sevasy:

thejonymyster:

rowantheexplorer:

mmmatchaball:

iguanamouth:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

nemertea:

typhlonectes:

The underground homes, often a
century old, are topped with gardens exploding with lush dune
grass, diamondleaf willows, and yellow wildflowers—a flash of color in
an otherwise gray landscape. 

“They’re bright green and everything around them is just brown,” says Brian Person, a wildlife biologist for the North Slope Borough in Barrow, Alaska. “It pops”…

I can die happy now that I know this fact.

I am now picturing soft little foxes with watering cans and spades planting and tending to their Fox Gardens

gettin ready for the winter

@godzillanon

Reading the article, I love that they don’t stay there; they migrate around the arctic and many different unrelated families of foxes might rotate through the dens as they migrate, timeshare style. Some dens are literally hundreds of years old, rotating residents the whole time. So the little foxes aren’t just planting a garden for themselves, they’re planting for all the future foxes that might make that den their temporary home.

@carrot–cube !!!

@cystemic how about Chiss foxen? yes yes yes yes yes pleeeeease!

😉

Arctic Foxes ‘Grow’ Their Own Gardens