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That fox is about to be slimed with a lot of ectoplasm.
From the Ballad of the Northern Lights
https://allpoetry.com/The-Ballad-of-the-Northern-Lights
“...There is a mountain round and low that lies by the Polar rim,
And I climbed its height in a whirl of light, and I peered o’er its jagged brim;
And there in a crater deep and vast, ungained, unguessed of men,
The mystery of the Arctic world was flashed into my ken.
For there these poor dim eyes of mine beheld the sight of sights —
That hollow ring was the source and spring of the mystic Northern Lights.
Then I staked that place from crown to base, and I hit the homeward trail....
...
Some say that the Northern Lights are the glare of the Arctic ice and snow;
And some that it’s electricity, and nobody seems to know.
But I’ll tell you now — and if I lie, may my lips be stricken dumb —
It’s a mine, a mine of the precious stuff that men call radium.
It’s a million dollars a pound, they say, and there’s tons and tons in sight.
You can see it gleam in a golden stream in the solitudes of night.
And it’s mine, all mine — ...”
Is the fox ready for adoption?
Gorgeous!
‘Foxfire’ can also be seen in the woods at night. It is a green glow from rotting wood.
I’ve spent a LOT of time, ‘in the field’ back in my Army days and it is SO COOL when you get to see it up close and personal!
Bioluminescence.
Mushrooms are the main reason for the glow on rotting wood, but lots of other wild critters use it too, for mating purposes as well as defense.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/foxfire-bioluminescence