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Fox outfoxes cameraman and snaps his picture

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Gaborn

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It was a day a wildlife photographer found himself well and truly outfoxed.
Firing off frames of an inquisitive five-month-old vixen, photographer Simon Czapp soon realised his subject had quite an interest in photography herself.

The clever cub was so intrigued by the camera equipment she clambered right on top of it.

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An eye for a picture: Jessie the vixen cub clambers over camera equipment in her pen at New Forest Wildlife Park in Ashurst, Hampshire.

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Make it snappy: The inquisitive cub managed to outfox the professional photographer and captured images of him taking her picture

And while she was supposed to be the subject of the shoot, the cub stood on the shutter release button and took her own frames.
Mr Czapp, 25, visited the New Forest Wildlife Park to capture images of new arrival Jessie, named after Toy Story's cowgirl.

She has been rehoused at the animal park in Ashurst, Hampshire - home to wolves, wallabies, deer and otters in 25 acres of ancient woodland - after being abandoned by her mother.

Jessie was offered a few scraps of ham to entice her into posing, but she quickly became so fascinated by the cameras she put on her own performance.

Mr Czapp, from Eastleigh, said: 'Jessie was very playful and inquisitive and not at all camera shy.

'Soon after I arrived she was chewing my shoes and everything seemed to be a game to her.

'Then she started exploring the camera I had set up on a tripod in her outdoor pen.

'She stood on her hind legs to peer into the lens and then used a tree stump to get a better look at the back of the camera.

'She balanced her front paws on it and and one point knocked it over.'

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Smile: The inquisitive five month old vixen poses for the camera

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Gotcha: The clever cub managed to press the shutter release button and captured this image of Simon Czapp photographing her

He repositioned the camera on the tripod nearer the tree stump and Jessie soon hopped back up.

At one point she had all four paws on the camera and was wobbling to keep her balance.

Mr Czapp added: 'She jumped up there several times and I realised it could make a good picture.

'As I was snapping away with the public's viewing window behind me, I thought I heard the camera go off but didn't think much of it.

'But when I checked the memory card afterwards, I was amazed to see Jessie had actually taken two frames of me photographing her.

'I couldn't believe I had been outfoxed by a fox!'

The wildlife park's head keeper, Shanna Dymond, 29, witnessed the impromptu photo shoot.

She said: 'Jessie is a lovely little cub. She is very inquisitive and as soon as we go to see her, she runs up to say hello and wags her tail.

'There were some lovely photos of her but she obviously thought the photographer was worthy of a picture too!'

Jessie and her pen mate, male fox cub Woody, were handed into an RSPCA centre in the spring but were too tame to be released into the wild.

They have an indoor stable to sleep in and an outdoor pen where they have dug a retreat under rocks.

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Lunchbox

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that fox was probably looking for food in the camera cause the camera mans breath was on it after eating a huge 3 foot long sandwich for lunch while the fox didnt eat anything for 3 days

poor fox, look how skinny it is
 

Tenks

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If pressing a button makes this fox clever my cat is a fucking genius because that asshole turns off my computer all the damn time while walking over it
 

Rich!

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BenThereGamer said:
Is it just me or does anyone else want a pet fox?

Had one myself for a week or so late last year! We found a pup in our garden, staggering around with pretty nasty bruising and a good few cuts. We kept it in, and looked after it - and my dog even got on well with it. :lol After it got back to good health, we called up the RSPCA who released it back into where it should be living.

And for anyone wondering why we didn't phone them in the first place - we live in the middle of fucking nowhere, and my girlfriend is a vetenary nurse.
 

Dennis

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richisawesome said:
Had one myself for a week or so late last year! We found a pup in our garden, staggering around with pretty nasty bruising and a good few cuts. We kept it in, and looked after it - and my dog even got on well with it. :lol After it got back to good health, we called up the RSPCA who released it back into where it should be living.

And for anyone wondering why we didn't phone them in the first place - we live in the middle of fucking nowhere, and my girlfriend is a vetenary nurse.
Should have kept it.
 

Alucrid

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richisawesome said:
Had one myself for a week or so late last year! We found a pup in our garden, staggering around with pretty nasty bruising and a good few cuts. We kept it in, and looked after it - and my dog even got on well with it. :lol After it got back to good health, we called up the RSPCA who released it back into where it should be living.

And for anyone wondering why we didn't phone them in the first place - we live in the middle of fucking nowhere, and my girlfriend is a vetenary nurse.

Fuck. I would've kept that fox and the hound style.
 

Fersis

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BenThereGamer said:
Is it just me or does anyone else want a pet fox?
I want one.

What a cute little thing. :3
 

way more

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BenThereGamer said:
Is it just me or does anyone else want a pet fox?

I've always wanted a pet fox or at least one that would come to my door and take scraps from my hand. In fact, I never cared for those The most Interesting Man in the World commercials until I saw the one where he is aiding a fox in a hunt.
 

mclem

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Why exactly was that camera set up like that? It appears to basically be set up in a way that would take a photograph of... the corner of the cage. It's not even pointed at ground level.

Unless, of course, it was set up in a position carefully designed to frame, say, a wildlife photographer really quite effectively.
 

Gaborn

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mclem said:
Why exactly was that camera set up like that? It appears to basically be set up in a way that would take a photograph of... the corner of the cage. It's not even pointed at ground level.

Unless, of course, it was set up in a position carefully designed to frame, say, a wildlife photographer really quite effectively.

'She stood on her hind legs to peer into the lens and then used a tree stump to get a better look at the back of the camera.

'She balanced her front paws on it and and one point knocked it over.'

He repositioned the camera on the tripod nearer the tree stump and Jessie soon hopped back up.

At one point she had all four paws on the camera and was wobbling to keep her balance.

Mr Czapp added: 'She jumped up there several times and I realised it could make a good picture.

From this it seems to me 1. He wanted to take a picture of the fox.

2. The fox showed great interest in the camera equipment

3. In attempting to climb onto the equipment to continue exploring it the fox accidentally knocked it over.

4. To make it easier for the fox so it might not knock it over the camera man set up the tripod near the stump.

5. The fox climbs up all the way and pokes some of the buttons, taking a few photos.
 
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