Fox on the rocks

[Skybird]

https://www.welt.de/img/vermischtes/mobile161135816/7312508807-ci102l-w1024/Fuchs-in-Donau-eingefroren.jpg

Fridingen, Baden-Württemberg.

https://www.welt.de/img/vermischtes/mobile161132523/8602501737-ci102l-w1024/KEIN-AUSSCHNITT-ERLAUBT-http-www-schwaebische-de-region.jpg

source: https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article161132897/Fox-on-the-rocks.html

[Jimbuna]

In the comments in the social networks, the people showed themselves torn between compassion for the fox and enthusiasm about the impressive picture.

Now that I can understand, I'm equally divided between both.

[Oberon]

Reminds me of a picture I came across a while back of a creature, I'm not sure what it was, which had died and its corpse had floated on the surface in a freezing stream, all that was above the frozen water had decayed and was just a skeleton, but below it the skin and tissue remained preserved. It was both impressive and quite repulsive at the same time.

[August]

Something is fishy about that picture. How did the fox manage to get encased in three different blocks of ice? I can understand the one stuck to his tail but the two that are stacked makes me wonder.

[Dowly]

Something is fishy about that picture. How did the fox manage to get encased in three different blocks of ice? I can understand the one stuck to his tail but the two that are stacked makes me wonder.Could be it was a warmer day at that point, then it started to freeze again and it made that second layer. :hmmm:

[Skybird]

Something is fishy about that picture. How did the fox manage to get encased in three different blocks of ice? I can understand the one stuck to his tail but the two that are stacked makes me wonder.
Dont think so. Who knows how the worker handled that chainsaw.

[August]

The fox must have drowned and froze into the two top blocks of ice (which originally must have been one piece) leaving his legs dangling out beneath then a whole new layer of ice froze underneath it and encased them.

[Skybird]

The "Förster" (ranger) finding the fox said he had found three or four does like this over the years, and a wild boar once. I beleive they wrote that it also was not the first fox he found.

The pictures do not finally answer, nor did the German articles, how he took them out with a chainsaw. Possible that it now indeed is two blocks and once the tail had been ripped/broken off.

The fur is ruined, btw, once the ice has molten.

Some years ago, in springtime, I helped saving a fawn from drowning. We have a major channel here, with vertical walls. The waterline is pratccially allways half a meter below the edge. Any animal fleeing and falling into the water, cannot get out by itself anymore - and most animals do not have the wits to swim some hundred meters down the river, away from the lock there is, where the vertical walls are replaced with natural rivershores where it is easy to get out and where swimmers easily can get into the water and out again as well.

Things like this happen more often than people maybe think.

I have also seen dogs jumping into the water - and not realsing that they could not get out themselves again. Thankfully their owners are with them.

Problem is not that there is a river/channel, problem is the artifical vertical walls.