Foxy Highway Robbers
A friend, Adrian, who took the photos in this interesting story about some somewhat abnormal behaviour he witnessed in province of Aragon , located in eastern Spain. Coincedentally, just a few weeks ago I came across a David Attenborough film of elephants doing something similar in Sri Lanka. Adrian witnessed some flagrant behaviour on a quiet road, clearly planned for the wished-for result.There appears to be a pair of foxes who work together - one jumping in front of the cars when they approach, causing the driver to stop, and the other lying twenty metres away by the side of the road and joining the other for their ill-begotten spoils, which is, of course, food. As well as himself he has come across two different people who have witnessed the same behaviour on this stretch of road. Whether they were brothers, sisters or a couple is not known. Perhaps they were hand reared or exhibiting learned behaviour from parents; this is not known either....