Well it’s a good thing monkey foxes don’t know about NFPA 704.
The symbol is called the healer’s paw. It’s a stylized depiction of the female forepaw print minus the digital pads.
Because yinrih are perennially unshod, and because they can see infrared radiation, they can see glowing paw prints left in a person’s wake if the ground is metal or otherwise absorbs heat quickly. Since the arrangement of palmar pads on the forepaws is sexually dimorphic (male prints are shown below), and since the medical field is dominated by women for historical reasons, people desperate for medical help would follow random trackways of female paw prints in the hopes of finding a healer.
Well it’s a good thing monkey foxes don’t know about NFPA 704.
The symbol is called the healer’s paw. It’s a stylized depiction of the female forepaw print minus the digital pads.
Because yinrih are perennially unshod, and because they can see infrared radiation, they can see glowing paw prints left in a person’s wake if the ground is metal or otherwise absorbs heat quickly. Since the arrangement of palmar pads on the forepaws is sexually dimorphic (male prints are shown below), and since the medical field is dominated by women for historical reasons, people desperate for medical help would follow random trackways of female paw prints in the hopes of finding a healer.