The foxes began establishing dens within the solar farms, using the land as part of their regular territory.

In some cases, according to the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, they returned repeatedly, treating these sites as reliable habitat.

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    @Spacehooks@reddthat.com People generally seem to agree that this article is not well written and possibly AI, even posting sources it takes from but does not cite. Since you are the OP, do you have any response ?

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    AI;DR - i literally could not bear to finish reading this slop, and went to find something human-written to confirm if any of it is based in reality. It is, but I wouldn’t assume any details in the slop summary are accurate.

    From what i skimmed I think the sole real-world source on the topic which this “article” (if you can call it that) cites is this abstract for a seminar that happened in 2022. An 88-page report from 2019 (San Joaquin Kit Fox Response to the Topaz Solar Farms) has far more information as well as pictures of the foxes and one of the dens the researchers built for them:

    three photographs with two captions:
Figure 5. Artificial den for kit foxes at the Topaz Solar Farms, San Luis Obispo County, California.
Figure 6. Security fence around solar arrays showing modifications to allow passage of kit foxes at the Topaz Solar Farms, San Luis Obispo County, California.

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Figure 8. Kit fox with a GPS collar at the Topaz Solar Farms, San Luis Obispo County, California.

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      No, it doesnt, did we read the same thing?

      // When I write about something it reads like this, that being said, I am no writer

      // Well, looking at the post history of the guy, he is def using AI to write articles, posting mostly daily, sometimes missing 1 day and the odd time posting 2 articles in one day with vastly different themes.