Hmmm,
Quite a while ago I was interested in feral animal spread and I found
quite a few reports of foxes swimming across rivers or to islands, not
so much in Australia as in other parts of the world. Plus it was
accepted that rivers posed no barrier to fox spread in Australia. At the
time I also came across a few eye witness reports of foxes swimming
across rivers with no obvious factor forcing them to swim.
Searching the Web, in amongst all the references to Fox TV and the Red
Fox swimming team, there are still quite a few references to foxes being
able to swim
on the ABC
http://www.scribblybum.net/18/187985.htm
and
the Hurstville City Council - note the 7th item in the first list.
http://www.hurstville.nsw.gov.au/PageZone_Environment.asp?z=8&c=460&p=1136
as well as occasional reports such as this report from New York called
'When the Garden Designs the House' which says "Other romantic ideas had
to be scrapped, like keeping free-range chickens on an island in a pond
to provide fresh eggs for breakfast. “We discovered that foxes can
swim,” Mr. Gordon said". (see
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/garden/04chris.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2).
Plus if you want a few photos try *http://tinyurl.com/35zcng
Cheers
Andrew
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wrote:
Hi Andrew
I'm very interested - and hope you can let me know about the basis for
your cat and fox swimming distances?
The only info I have found on the web relating to such large distances
is a summary of an article about occurrences of these on WA islands.
On the other hand, bird rafts have been very successful at places like
Hampstead Heath in London which has many foxes. Common Terns use them
as well as ducks etc.
I wish I had had time to try them in Australia.
Michael Norris
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