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Posted with her permission, a wild fox (no tame ones in Oz) taken yesterday by my daughter with her Canon Powershot.
As foxes are continually hunted, poisoned or trapped as vermin it is rare to see one pose for the camera like this.
Indeed, it is rare to see one at all as they usually prey by night.
Excellent shots, I presume this is the same species as our Red Fox? Much tolerated in urban areas in the UK as many people feed them in their gardens. As I live in a rural area I've only seen one here in five years so not loved here! My Daughter lives in a city and regularly sees them during the day, she has badgers in her garden too!
Hi David - I really am the complete ignoramus in ID'ing any kind of wildlife but to me it does look identical to Chevvy's recent Vixen Portrait. However, a little Googling provides an answer to your question:
Foxes were introduced into Australia initially for the purpose of recreational fox-hunting. Australia's roots were British, a country where fox-hunting had been carried out for hundreds of years, but the only "sport" that hunters had was dingoes and kangaroos. Bringing foxes to the new country enabled them to still indulge their sport of fox-hunting.
The European red fox was first released in the Geelong area near Melbourne in 1845. More were introduced after 1845 as a method for controlling the introduced hare problem. It was given time to breed, which it did prolifically with no natural predators on the continent, and fox-hunting started within a couple of decades.
Foxes reached Queensland by 1910, and by the following year were also sighted in Western Australia. As to how it came, it was, of course, brought over by ship as there was no other alternative for making sea-crossings.
Rabbits were first introduced to Australia by the First Fleet in 1788. ... more effective as natural controllers of the population than the later foxes and feral cats.
I should add that to the best of my knowledge foxes are sighted only in rural areas of Oz where they prey upon live stock and are noted for their cunning in avoiding being shot or baited.
Firstly Mark a nice cpature - this fox is very healthy.
But Mark - not entirely true. There are a lot of foxes around the cities even in Melbourne we see them regularly in Canberra. They have adapted to urban life too well eating little birds; frogs; and getting into garbage tins.
Yes, Terry. It was the first thing I noticed about Nadia's fox, its superb condition.
Thanks for setting me straight about urban foxes. Being an expat Taswegian where there are none, I had only ever heard of foxes being viscious rural killers of lambs and wildlife.
Seeing this gorgeous animal I have to admit that I feel very sympathetic towards it and could see myself quite willing to adopt this canine, but I am sure there's a law against it.
I am on record here as not being a great admirer of dogs in general so this confession, this sudden vulnerability is all the more remarkable.
Your daughter obviously made the most of a wonderful opportunity. Those are cracking shots, particularly the 2nd.
John
"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there � even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity." ~ Robert Doisneau
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