Feeding time

This was a cool event... all the kids got to enter the arctic foxes' area... and they all got a piece of cheese each... they marched in on line... squatted down and waited for the foxes to come and fetch the cheese... and they came in a hurry! They sure knew what was going on. The little cuties even returned to see if there were more cheese... my son was in there and was bit, but he thought it was just cool.

The woman you see in the middle of the picture is the leader of the wildlife park. She is incredible - how she handles the lynxes, wolves and foxes. The foxes went wild when she brought her bucket... they knew she had food in it. Some of them even managed to get into the bucket to steal the contents.

what a wonderful job this woman has....

I know the pic isn't any good.. it was raining a lot.. a bit too dark, but it's a nice memory still

Information about arctic foxes:

Latin name Alopex lagopus. As far as I know, they only live in the tundra. They're gray in the summer, white in the winter. They eat leftovers of dead animals killed by wolves, minks, wolverines etc, and small rodents. The arctic fox was almost hunted to extinction (for its fur) in the late 1800's, when it still lived in the southern parts of Scandinavia. Today it is protected by law.

Thanks to ~acornpirate for this information!!!