Field guide No. 582

In a mossy hollow among ferns and fallen leaves, a red fox sleeps tucked inside its own vast tail, which wraps round it several times like a duvet. The tail does most of the fox now.

Red fox cocooned in its enormous tail

Self-catering bedding.

In a mossy hollow among ferns and fallen leaves, a red fox sleeps tucked inside its own vast tail, which wraps round it several times like a duvet. The tail does most of the fox now.

Field noteFoxes curl their brush round their noses. This brush wraps the whole fox several times over.

Specimen
No. 582
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale
Where it doesn’t exist
A mossy hollow in the ferns.
Nearest existing relative
A sleeping fox.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking scale