A Yellowstone fox catches dinner

Yellowstone National Park is an amazing place. I stayed there for three days longer than I had originally planned and I still was not ready to leave it. Even if I had spent another week there I still would not have seen all the natural wonders of the park, but fortunately the BBC recently sent film crews to Yellowstone to capture its natural history in every season. These vignettes were expertly strung together in the miniseries Yellowstone: Battle for Life, and embedded below is one of the scenes in which a fox tries to catch dinner in the middle of winter:



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Three species of "fox" occur where I live: red fox, kit fox & grey "fox" (if you care to call Urocyon a "fox." All three seek to add my poultry to their menu.

By darwinsdog (not verified) on 04 Mar 2010 #permalink

What was that he ate? A mouse?