My Year of Darwin 4/29/2014: What did the fox say? Ughhhhh

A fox (Canis fulvipes), of a kind said to be peculiar to the island, and very rare in it, and which is a new species, was sitting on the rocks. He was so intently absorbed in watching the work of the officers, that I was able, by quietly walking up behind, to knock him in the head with my geological hammer. This fox, more curious or more scientific, but less wise, than the generality of his brethren, is now mounted in the museum of the Zoological Society. 

Darwin is exploring the islands of southern Chile, noted for the poverty of the people and the tameness of animals.