There were several imaginative answers left in the comment section below yesterday’s “Lincoln Through the Lens” picture of a mystery animal photographed by Stephanie Smart, though no one suggested it was a chupacabra. We also received a picture of a similar creature sent by Rosamond Delori (left photo). In the opinion of the Lincoln Squirrel, who is not an expert on wildlife, what we have here is a fawn (generic image at right), which is not intuitively obvious considering (a) it is sitting exposed in the middle of a field, and (b) it has has much bigger ears and a bigger, blacker nose than we thought. Any other opinions of either a serious or whimsical nature are welcome. Perhaps white-tail deer have a common ancestor (at least from the neck up) with kangaroos…
I noticed that this article and the Mystery photo with its comments indicate that this creature has been sighted three times in the past year — at DeLori’s, Green’s, and Smart’s — all of whom live near each other. This leads me to one inescapable conclusion: someone in the neighborhood is still breeding mule foxes!