Foxes at Camera 4

Recently, one of our cameras has captured a family of foxes: two adults and a litter of four pups. The foxes were observed running back and forth, climbing, hunting, foraging then eating, playing, and one even approaches the camera to investigate. Being the elusive creatures we know them to be, you may be surprised to hear that mere hours separate our (stationary) camera’s vulpine encounters with human and even automobile ones. It surely makes one wonder about the animal activity going on behind our backs – under our noses, even – in places we understand as busy, public, and in some cases, distinctly human. Where do these animals fit into the equation of the human occupation of these spaces; or, walking this train of thought back a little further, what has caused this division between human and animal in our obscured mutual occupation of the same kinds of space?