Elmwood Park Zoo Fox Eating Starling

You usually don't see a zoo animal kill and eat another wild creature right in front of you. But, on this cold, windy, second day of January, one of the red foxes pounced on one of the starlings that for some reason landed on a log inside the fox exhibit.

The others all flew away, but one became a mid-morning snack for the fox.

I know this is nature's way. But this sort of thing always makes me sad. If I had noticed the birds in the fox exhibit a second or two earlier, I probably would have rustled leaves or done something to try to chase them out of there.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Elmwood Zoo
• zoos
• fox
• starling
• nature's way
• 2010
• January

[ZooVisitorMM2]

@33Keith33 I'm not sure who's smarter, but I know which one I feel sorrier for ...

Thanks so much for your input on this!

[33Keith33]

You can take the fox out of the forest but you can't take the forest out of the fox. Several years ago at the Los Angeles Zoo, a drunk asked a zoo employee where the lions were because he wanted to play with them. It was a slow day at the zoo so no one actually saw him jump into the exhibit but that evening when the keepers went into the exhibit to clean up, they found bits and pieces of him behind some bushes. Now ask yourself, who's smarter. the drunk or the starling?