Friday Chat w/ Vlad

Hey, it’s Vlad. I’m just hanging out with with my subjects today. You see one of the keys to being a successful leader is to be accessible. Getting out and mingling with the others is a way for me to get a pulse on everyone’s mood and to find out what kind of plots are floating around to undermine me. Yuri is a very good source for this information because first he is everyone’s friend and secondly he will tell you anything as long as you keep feeding him his beloved breakfast pastries. I nipped Panda’s last plot in the bud and all it cost me was a danish kringle. Just keep feeding the boy and sit back and listen. Foxes, by the way, are very good listeners.

People have studied the hearing range of us red foxes 🦊 and have found we can actually hear low frequencies better than dogs and our maximal absolute hearing sensitivity is better than any mammal that’s been tested. The low frequency range helps us hear things moving underground or even under snow. One of the projects that management has looked into for us is teaching us to do avalanche rescue. How would you feel about being stuck under several feet of snow with little hope of rescue but then digging through the snow you see my smiling face? If you happened to be rescued by Yuri he would no doubt expect an apple cruller as a reward. Oh, and foxes often pee on things we uncover in the snow so just a heads up on that.

I would expect that Freddie would not have the same hearing sensitivity as us red foxes. Have you seen his tiny little ears...maybe not because they are tiny and little. Arctic foxes are adapted to extremely cold environments. Just thinking about 70 below zero makes me sing soprano and red foxes are no slouches dealing with cold weather. Something had to go to deal with those conditions and it was the ears which loose heat.

Well, I need to get back to interrogating Yuri. I have a couple Dunkin munchkins which should get me some good intel.

Vlad out.