This animal nailed to the practically melted ice floe and trembled.
The little arctic fox could have had a much sadder fate if not for a fishing boat passing nearby. People drew attention to a creature huddled on an ice floe which was about to fall apart.
It isn’t surprising that the fishermen didn’t expect such a “catch”, because they specialized in crabs, but not in arctic foxes.
The crew of the boat later told that they didn’t even immediately realize what kind of creature was moving on the ice floe, but still risked to come closer to find it out. There was a cub of a polar fox on the ice. The creature was wet, chilled and exhausted from the constant struggle with the seagulls which had already begun to hunt him.
The crew quickly began to rescue the Arctic fox. At first they tried to take him off the ice with their hands, but he was shy and didn’t let anyone approach him. Therefore, they broke the ice the Arctic fox fell into the water and they caught him with a net for fishing very soon.
Then the animal was placed in a plastic tray. When he dried up and warmed up, he was given sausages which he drank with great pleasure.
After some time he finally got stronger and the cutie was released into its natural habitat. And we hope that from now on he will be more careful.
