Lazy Geoff

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A Twitter thread about a fox named “Lazy Geoff” drew the attention of thousands online. But can a fox really be lazy? Our search for an answer revealed a surprising shift in how humans understand animals and, maybe, the fate of nature.

****** Credits: This episode was written and produced by Dean Russell and Ben Brock Johnson. Sound design by Emily Jankowski. Ben Brock Johnson and Dean Russell are the co-hosts.

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0:51.2	About a decade ago, when Danny Rabbiati was in college, she signed up for a research project
0:57.8	studying red foxes.
1:01.4	Not the glamorous foxes you see in nature documentaries, Disney movies on Instagram.
1:06.6	I'm talking about urban foxes in the UK, kind of main g trash hungry at night, they
1:13.9	roam cities like London and Bristol, and Danny says they'll show up anywhere, anywhere.
1:20.7	One night I was picked by bins out, I turned around and there was a fox in my hallway
1:24.8	inside my house, and I just yelled really excitedly, there's a fox in the hallway, which obviously
1:30.6	then scared the fox in it ran away.
1:34.5	The point of the project was to track what the foxes were doing, where they were going.
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