Environmental Graffiti

On the Trail of the Urban Fox

Alone in a crowd or on your own in a deserted road, the city can be an isolating place for people. Not so for the urban fox; this maverick likes it that way. Well adapted to built up areas and human presence, this omnivorous opportunist takes what it can get – from the moment it emerges from its den to the time it returns, foraging done for another day. Laurent Geslin provides the stunning photography.

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Hunting with Nature’s Most Extreme Camouflage Artist

Its keen brown eyes and coal black nose could be stones in the snow-white landscape to those unaware they are the points of a triangle formed by its characteristic snout. Merging imperceptibly with its colourless environment, and able to withstand some of the most frigid extremes on the planet, this super-adapted animal trots nimbly on the icy surface, using its acutely sensitive hearing to home in precisely on its next meal under the snow. Then, it pounces.

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Woman Runs One Mile With Rabid Fox Locked to Her Arm

Finally, proof that exercise is bad for your health: Yesterday, a jogger in Arizona found out the exercise is not as good for you as people profess. During her regular run she was attacked by a rabid fox, who it turns out was also remarkably insistent. After the fox bit the jogger on the foot she went to grab it by the scruff of the neck only for the fox to firmly clamp its jaw on her arm.

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