Juvenile Arctic fox....in the wild

Il est adorable***************

Tout à fait!!!!!

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Merci jove

Tremendous capture Diana , great photography

He was....thrilling!

sheeeesh that's not cute at all...... (:

What's there not to like....I was itching to cuddle, but remained motionless in deference to wildlife protocols.....

haha yeah im sure, who wouldnt want to cuddle a thing of beauty like that!

Ein wunderschönes Tier, Glückwunsch zu dem Foto.

Thank you so very much!

Exceptional capture!

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Thanks William.

Well captured, Diana. Isn't it great to be in places where animals have no fear of humans. :)

It certainly is, George....I was entranced..

Well done!! Impressionnant!

Merci bcp, Rymie...bon weekend

some food in your trousers ? ;-)

My legs?......:-)))

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Outstanding image. Great details. Up there with the very best in this subject. Well done Diana. Regards Tess.

Thank you Kate.....it was wonderful nature experience!

Lovely portrait of this cute, young fox! The fur looks so soft and he seems so fearless...
Great capture, Diana!
Happy weekend! Big hugs:)

He was absolutely captivating! And very playful!
He had not seen a person before...no-one lives on that island!
Big hugs to you too, Sas

I spy some beautiful work
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Thank you!

Belle prise !

Merci Sylvain

Perfect, Di. Such striking eyes. When do they turn white then?...it'd be a bit of a bummer trying to hunt in the snow being this colour...

Apparently they go soft grey in winter...this is a youngster.
It was fabulous to have my trousers nibbled by it!

Impressionnant

Merci!

Thank you so much!

How adorable! My dad told of how, when working in the Aleutian Islands, foxes would run up the stairs and into the small planes after they landed. They knew food was in there. They were so friendly that it was hard to get them off the planes!

When was that, Diane? They are exactly the same here....these islands are the Westernmost point of the Aleutians chain. Bering and the early explorers record of being pestered by them and having bags and belongings snitched....

He was on the Alaskan end, Adak, Atka and two others I don't remember. Late '70s. He was building military communication towers. I was reading about the extinct Falklands wolf awhile back, which was first recorded by Darwin, of all people. He noted that they were as friendly as domestic dogs and greeted the men with wagging tails. Easy to see how they could have been domesticated. Actually, they were hunted to extinction by American fur traders because they were so easy to kill. : (

I believe so! And we saw a lot of military communication towers...first in Nome, then in Anadyr in Chukotka, and on the Russian Aleutin islands. The fixes were so very, very cute. They see people on this island about twice a year, as it is uninhabited!