Researchers set puzzles for dozens of foxes in the U.K. in which they were challenged to carry out simple tasks to get food.
— put out puzzles that required urban and rural foxes to perform simple tasks to obtain food, reporter the BBC.Lead researcher Blake Morton said that while the urban foxes were more likely to approach the puzzles and make contact, they were just as bad at solving them as their country cousins.
“In our study, we tested this hypothesis in wild red foxes by giving them unfamiliar puzzle feeders to see how they would react. We found that urban foxes were more likely to behave bolder than rural populations in terms of their willingness to physically touch the puzzles, but they were not more motivated to try to gain access to the rewards inside.”.Scientists found foxes in 96 locations acknowledged the puzzles, touched them in 31 locations and gained access to food in 12 locations.
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