The fascinating story of a Swiss Alpine Red Fox that owns a high elevation train station!
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- Опубликовано: 26 янв 2024
- While overnighting in climber bunks/accommodations above the Klien Shiedegg Jungfrauhbahn mountain train station at 6,762 feet (2061 meters) we were sitting outside the station restaurant/bar enjoying the sunset after the last train left carrying away all the tourists. Much to our surprise a Swiss Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) approach us and other post dinner diners. This episode is about this encounter and some of the fascinating adaptations of the Red Fox in Switzerland and how it has merged its habitat into even urban human developments. This is a train stop above Grindelwald with thousands of tourists, hikers, climbers, skiers, pass through this important train station on the Jungfrauh railway. It is the connection to the train to the top of europe and a stop between Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen.
For more info about this beautiful location in the heart of the swiss alps!
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That fella is very healthy looking. You can see why some people can't resist feeding such a beautiful and friendly fox.
I found it so fascinating Brian!
My husband works in a rock quarry that’s pretty isolated. He drives a dump truck back and forth all day on gravel roads around the quarry. When he stops to eat lunch in his truck one day a red fox came out of the weeds and came rather close to his truck so he threw some of his lunch to the fox. This goes on sporadically over a period of time and one day there are 2 red foxes there. He does not get out of the truck to interact with them but he does talk to him and he seems to listen. I have a short video of one interaction on my channel . I know we aren’t supposed to feed the animals but he doesn’t approach the foxes. This has happened maybe 4 times. By the way we live in upstate South Carolina. He has only seen the two foxes together one time. The other few times it seems to be the “original “ fox he encountered. Just very interesting to see such a wild animal up so close. Thanks for sharing the Swiss Red Fox 🦊 ❤
Yes! Agreed! And thanks so much for sharing your interesting story with me and viewers! It enriches my learning and enhances the channel experience! 🙂
Hi! I used to live in rural area, downsize closest to the city, now I see coyotes and foxes and bobcats. They have learned to live closer to humans for survival! Thanks! 🤗🥰
That is awesome! Yes..they are intelligent, resourceful and adaptable!
@@natureatyourdoor Hi! Yes and no, remember chickens! 🤗
@@litrealred6840 ha. Right? 😉
Dear Frank!
What for an impressive video you made about this particular Fox as well for the beautiness of Switzerland Alps......
Thank you!
ciao,
a Swiss Cititzen.........😎
Glad you enjoyed it! My mother was born in Ticino! I love Switzerland! I hope you will check out my Switzerland playlist and let me know what you think! More swiss wildlife and adventure videos to come in my beloved Switzerland!
Thank you for sharing that wonderful encounter with that alpine fox. Just a small correction though, both the lynx and the wolf were reintroduced into Switzerland many years ago. It might have been as far back as the late 80s. The Steinadler (Golden Eagle ?) was also reintroduced around that time. Thank you again for sharing that footage.
Hi Hans! You are very kind! And thank you for sharing updates on the reintroduction of species in switzerland! My mother was from Ticino and I love Switzerland! I hope you will check out my swiss playlists on beautiful hikes and other species in Switzerland!
You'd probably enjoy a night of watching "our" (as my wife calls them) foxes. Have a couple gray, and I believe 1 red that come around in the evening/night. We do not directly feed them, but I do dump food scrap back in the woods away from the used part of my property. Would rather the critters get it back there than have them approaching the house, getting in the trash, and potentially having an interaction with kids or pets. They are however, very neat to watch from a distance. Side thought, have you ever thought about doing a video on the barking tree frog? And it's differences from a green tree frog, I know the MD DNR would like to have any sightings reported.
Ha! Fox watching is cool, right? 🙂 I am not familiar with that frog species!
Hi Frank. Awsome as always. From Pennsylvania buddy Jeff. The scenery in Switzerland 🇨🇭 is bueatiful I love the mountains. I was a dall sheep hunter when lived in Alaska. Almost always in the brooks range. I have a couple on my wall. They are very good eating. I use everything I hunt. That is the way I was raised. I got my Pennsylvania doe with my grandpaps 1894 30 wcf. This year it was made in1909 God bless Frank. 😊
Cool! Thanks for sharing!
Love your videos Mr Taylor! Could you do a video on termites?
I will certainly need to put that on my playlist. Fortunately, I do not have termites...at my Door..ha! ..but I much needed episode! Thanks for your suggestion!
Heres something you may find interesting. :)
The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey''......
.....but the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :)
Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's.
The name it self has a suffix, '' -iye '', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to',
just like the Latin suffix of '' -ia '', which exists in such country names like
Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Latv-ia, Roman-ia etc etc again meaning 'land of/belonging to'.
Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).
The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish is much older, ancient Turkish been over ten thousand years old.
Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble '' Türkiye ''
we got various spellings like;
Turquía (in Spanish),
Turchia (in Italian),
Turquie (in French)
Turkei (in Germn) and
Turkey (in English)
all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye.
Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named 'turkey'....
...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''.....
....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.
In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''Turkey'' and later ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years.
Now in modern times, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on the map, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected.
So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name to Türkiye, which it always was. Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )
So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )
Best wishes. ;)
Ha! Thank you! Yes very interesting! Have a great day!
@@natureatyourdoorI'm glad you found it interesting and thank you for your courtesy! you and all your loved ones have a great day as well ! :)
Almost like raccoons over here, taking whatever they can get. I don't think they come to explore new habitats. It is just that their own natural habitats get smaller and smaller by human development, like that train station, etc.
True! 🤔 thanks for sharing your thought provoking comment!
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the lynx was exterminated?? Thats awful. i once came across a red fox in the woods of ohio deep in winter it had a frozen fish head in its mouth so majestic
Good news! One of my swiss viewers commented and shared that both the lynx and wolf have been reintroduced in Switzerland! Thanks for sharing YOUR story with me and viewers...enriching the channel experience! 👍🙂
Sorry but there was nothing fascinating in the story about the fox and the video was repeating it self from different angels…..
Hi Ciaogali. Thanks for your honest feedback...honestly this fox was fascinating to me in such a unique location. True..."busted" i had limited footage! I hope you will check out my Switzerland playlist and let me know if some of the other videos have higher value! I appreciate feedback from all my viewers so that I may continue to refine my product and provide better value.