Yellowstone
Photo essay: Breakfast with a Yellowstone foxy lady
By Steve Fuller
Waiting for breakfast … her eyes closed, her audio senses focused, this fox’s ground-probing ears are fully deployed listening for giveaway sounds under the snowpack.
Up! She hears a sound in the underworld … between the snowpack and the earth where rodents are active throughout the winter.
Launch … Gravity’s rainbow … maximum ballistic velocity for deep snow penetration.
Boom! She pierces through the ceiling (from the vole’s perspective) to snare her quarry.
The misfortune of one sustains the other. Sometimes we eat, other times we are eaten …
