Nonplus

On my post about the red fox, I used the word nonplus incorrectly. I used it as if it meant not bothered or disturbed. It actually means perplexed--so perplexed you can't speak or react. 

The internet also has something really interesting about foxes! Apparently, where there are foxes, the rates of Lyme disease are lower, because foxes eat rodents, which they say are actually a main vector. However, where coyotes have displaced foxes, the Lyme disease rates have gone up, because coyotes do not prey on rodents. (Then what do they eat?)