What does the fox say?
Well, a “conversation” captured on camera in northern B.C. between a fox and a lynx shows at least one fox has quite a lot to say.
Allyson Rozak-Burgess was driving in Fort Nelson, B.C., along a resource road on Nov. 1, when she came around a corner and saw two shapes ahead.
“They were together on the road but you couldn’t tell what they were,” Rozak-Burgess told Global News.
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Once they separated, she could see a fox and a lynx, squaring off.
“I parked, I grabbed my phone,” Rozak-Burgess said. She had never seen anything like it.
“It appeared the lynx was after the fox but I thought, ‘I can’t let that happen because I’m an animal lover.'”
It was then she realized the fox was chasing off the lynx, something she was not expecting to see.
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“I think the fox was guarding a den,” she said.
That’s when Rozak-Burgess starting hearing the fox “bark” and it appeared the two were having a conversation.
“It was amazing.”
From what she could tell, the lynx did take off into the trees and left the fox alone.
“I’ve seen a fox and a lynx before,” she said, having lived in northern B.C. all her life, “but I’ve never seen behaviour like that.”
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