![]() As a biologist, she is trained to examine facts objectively and she is desperate not to anthropomorphise and attribute human characteristics to this fox. Raven has a Ph.D in biology and is a member of Mensa and of Sigma Xi. Clearly this wild fox is choosing to turn up, on schedule, every day, and interacts with Catherine Raven, who certainly does not have the wit of a nit. Yet, a wild fox visits Catherine Raven’s isolated mountain cottage every afternoon at about 4.15, stays there within arm’s-length of her while she reads to it, and shows interest in her ‘show-and-tell’ of found objects. Foxes are supposed to avoid people, free spirits are supposed to avoid schedules, and everyone except a person with the wit of a nit is supposed to avoid humanizing wild animals. We were meeting, after all, under odd and uncomfortable circumstances. I needed to be thinking of how my relationship with the fox began and why we rendezvoused every day at 4.15 p.m. ![]() A reclusive scientist and a wild fox form an unusual bond in Catherine Raven’s memoir. ![]()
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