In May 2022, Skansen received two new arctic foxes.
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An eight-year-old female and a one-year-old male from zoos in Iceland and in Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Skansen at Djurgården is a popular tourist destination, with, among other things, a zoo.
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It was at the end of November that one of the arctic foxes at the Skansen zoo on Djurgården in Stockholm was found dead, reports P4 Stockholm. An autopsy was performed, and a bite wound was found.
Skansen has now concluded that a wild animal, a red fox, got into the zoo and the arctic foxes’ enclosure.
– It’s terrible, it’s a failure of course. We who are responsible for the animals must protect them from external dangers and injuries, says Linda Törngren, head of the animal care unit at Skansen, to P4.
“Animals invent things”
Now Skansen will take measures to prevent it from happening again. Partly erect a permanent physical fence, partly a permanent electric fence. The remaining arctic fox has also been moved to “a safe place”.
What is the reason why a red fox broke in, Linda Törngren cannot answer.
– Animals invent things they haven’t done in 100 years. All of a sudden, an individual appears who does something none of us expected it to do or be able to do, she tells P4.
The mountain fox that died was two and a half years old. He had then lived in the park for about a year and a half.
The fjällräven is one of Sweden’s most endangered mammals and is protected.
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