RE: A curious fox
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You took some really nice shots of the fox but you should be careful next time. Naturally, foxes are very shy animals and they usually run away from humans. If they are this fearless and friendly, they are often infected with rabies. The disease numbs their natural instincts.
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Thank you very much for the advice, I kept some distance, but I have to admit that these foxes were really very friendly, they were definitely not sick but they were like that because of the tourists feeding them.
In our mountainous area tourists made some huge mistakes, they started to feed wild animals on the roadsides, wild animals having no food in the forests started to come down to the villages and even to the towns.
We have the same problem with bears, which you sometimes think are such cute pets when you feed them.
It seems to me that these animals are already lost because they no longer get their own food, but prefer to sit on the side of the road and wait for food from tourists.
I see. Yeah, that´s actually sad. I mean it looks cool but in fact, these animals are indeed kind of lost, like you said. In Slovakia, the country of our eastern neighbors, they are currently having some big problems with the bears. There have been many cases of the bears attacking and injuring people not just in nature but even in villages and towns. Maybe this is happening in your country too.
The same problem is here too, bears have descended on towns like Sibiu, Brasov, towns at the foot of the mountains, and yes, we have seen on TV several attacks by bears in these areas, attacks that have resulted in the death of people.
After all, they remain wild animals and we are in their territory.
If we can keep a safe distance from these animals, we will be safe.
I´m sorry to hear that you have these problems too but just like you said, it´s their territory after all, they have been living in those places for thousands of years. It´s us, humans, who have been constantly occupying more and more natural habitats of creatures that have been living on this planet much longer than us...