"The fox is cunning." Fact or myth?

We see lots of foxes on the golf courses...and when you watch the way they stalk prey, you gotta give 'em high marks for "cunning."

Of course, cats are the same way.

Walking to work one day, i saw a vixen emerge from the undergrowth with a mallard in her mouth. When she saw me, she dropped the bird, turned, and headed back the way she had come. I had seen her often enough to have a rough idea of where her den was, and what she was doing was assuring that she did not lead me back to her den. This was near the top of a rise over which the road ran, so i walked on, and turned around so that i could just see that stretch of road as i stood on the downward slope. Soon enough, she appeared, looked around (i was downwind and for all intents out of her field of vision) and she grabbed the duck and headed across the road, in the direction in which i was pretty certain the den lay. Smart vixen.

Maître Corbeau, sur un arbre perché,
Tenait en son bec un fromage.
Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché,
Lui tint à peu près ce langage :
"Hé ! bonjour, Monsieur du Corbeau.
Que vous êtes joli ! que vous me semblez beau !
Sans mentir, si votre ramage
Se rapporte à votre plumage,
Vous êtes le Phénix des hôtes de ces bois."
A ces mots le Corbeau ne se sent pas de joie ;
Et pour montrer sa belle voix,
Il ouvre un large bec, laisse tomber sa proie.
Le Renard s'en saisit, et dit : "Mon bon Monsieur,
Apprenez que tout flatteur
Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute :
Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute. "
Le Corbeau, honteux et confus,
Jura, mais un peu tard, qu'on ne l'y prendrait plus.

Je meurs de soif aupres de La Fontaine . . .

Good one, Walter . . .

The first French poem we had to apprendre par cœur in school ...

Beats the hell out of la plume de ma tante . . .

I've read this story on Aesop's Fables. It's when the crow falls for the fox's charm towards it and drops the food.

As far as I remember, Aesop's fable is called Αλώπηξ καὶ βότρυς ("The Fox and the Grapes") ... without any mention of a crow.