Psuddenly there he is, the fox, in the middle of the sidewalk, with shining eyes. Then he scurries away, swiftly and gracefully: the left hind paw to where the right front paw was before, and vice versa; This particularly pretty way of walking is called “lacing”. New Berliners like to talk about such surreal moments. Long-term Berliners react little by surprise: foxes are seen all the time – and more and more often.
But if you plan to see a fox, it’s not that easy. That, after all, is the magic of wildlife encounters: you can’t plan them. Or is it? It’s a cool evening, a walk with Sophia Kimmig. In her bestseller “Of Foxes and People”, the biologist tells of her experiences with foxes in the capital, which she followed for six years as part of her doctoral thesis. So nobody could know better where in Berlin you can see foxes.