The video is actually about the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal, in Guatemala.
It’s filmed in such a way that you feel — a little — the life of this place back in the day.
The lack of musical soundtrack helps your immersion, as does the sight of modern Mayans (presumably) who are gathered around a campfire in the square.
As you continue watching, the thought comes: This was a great city; just look at the people for scale! And now it’s abandoned, just like our great cities will be someday.
(Strange interlude)
(Interlude over)
And then there’s a fox — what? It sort of looks like a fox, but somehow different.
Quashing the momentary fantasy that this is New York ten centuries from today and Reynard has evolved, you head to good old Wikipedia and discover that you are looking at something older than Astaire and Charisse, older than New York City, older even than Tikal (emphasis added):
The gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), or grey fox, is an omnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, widespread throughout North America and Central America. This species and its only congener, the diminutive island fox (Urocyon littoralis) of the California Channel Islands, are the only living members of the genus Urocyon, which is considered to be genetically basal to all other living canids.
Older even than H. sapiens, but still carrying on business at the same location, just as (I like to think) some Mayans also were doing on the day that this photographer visited Tikal.
Everything changes, except for the really important stuff that we can sometimes see when we slow down and look around.
It makes me really glad that this gray fox chose that moment to trot across town and that the photographer chose to record it.
(I’ll leave the iridescent “turkeys” to you. Pretty, aren’t they? If you’re curious about them, please feel free to share your findings in the comments!)
Some lagniappe:
Meanwhile, in the “Galapagos of the US,”
Flight To Wonder 