The fascinating story of a Swiss Alpine Red Fox that owns a high elevation train station!

While overnighting in climber bunks/accommodations above the Klien Shiedegg Jungfrauhbahn mountain train station at 6,762 feet (2061 meters) we were sitting outside the station restaurant/bar enjoying the sunset after the last train left carrying away all the tourists. Much to our surprise a Swiss Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) approach us and other post dinner diners. This episode is about this encounter and some of the fascinating adaptations of the Red Fox in Switzerland and how it has merged its habitat into even urban human developments. This is a train stop above Grindelwald with thousands of tourists, hikers, climbers, skiers, pass through this important train station on the Jungfrauh railway. It is the connection to the train to the top of europe and a stop between Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen.

For more info about this beautiful location in the heart of the swiss alps!

Please also see my Switzerland playlist!

[CharlieB.-]

My husband works in a rock quarry that’s pretty isolated. He drives a dump truck back and forth all day on gravel roads around the quarry. When he stops to eat lunch in his truck one day a red fox came out of the weeds and came rather close to his truck so he threw some of his lunch to the fox. This goes on sporadically over a period of time and one day there are 2 red foxes there. He does not get out of the truck to interact with them but he does talk to him and he seems to listen. I have a short video of one interaction on my channel . I know we aren’t supposed to feed the animals but he doesn’t approach the foxes. This has happened maybe 4 times. By the way we live in upstate South Carolina. He has only seen the two foxes together one time. The other few times it seems to be the “original “ fox he encountered. Just very interesting to see such a wild animal up so close. Thanks for sharing the Swiss Red Fox 🦊 ❤

[hansfreivogel]

Thank you for sharing that wonderful encounter with that alpine fox. Just a small correction though, both the lynx and the wolf were reintroduced into Switzerland many years ago. It might have been as far back as the late 80s. The Steinadler (Golden Eagle ?) was also reintroduced around that time. Thank you again for sharing that footage.

[ricci-ArsVivendi]

Dear Frank!
What for an impressive video you made about this particular Fox as well for the beautiness of Switzerland
Thank you!
ciao,
a Swiss

[brianquilty]

That fella is very healthy looking. You can see why some people can't resist feeding such a beautiful and friendly fox.

[litrealred]

Hi! I used to live in rural area, downsize closest to the city, now I see coyotes and foxes and bobcats. They have learned to live closer to humans for survival! Thanks! 🤗🥰

[Spoon_]

Love your videos Mr Taylor! Could you do a video on termites?

[KenanTurkiye]

Heres something you may find interesting. :)

The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird

the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :)

Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's.

The name it self has a suffix, '' -iye '', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to',

just like the Latin suffix of '' -ia '', which exists in such country names like
Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Latv-ia, Roman-ia etc etc again meaning 'land of/belonging to'.

Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).

The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish is much older, ancient Turkish been over ten thousand years old.

Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble '' Türkiye ''
we got various spellings like;

Turquía (in Spanish),
Turchia (in Italian),
Turquie (in French)
Turkei (in Germn) and
Turkey (in English)

all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye.

Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named 'turkey'....

...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish

....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.

In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''Turkey'' and later ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years.

Now in modern times, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on the map, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected.

So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name to Türkiye, which it always was. Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )

So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )

Best wishes. ;)

[JeffreyCotle]

Hi Frank. Awsome as always. From Pennsylvania buddy Jeff. The scenery in Switzerland 🇨🇭 is bueatiful I love the mountains. I was a dall sheep hunter when lived in Alaska. Almost always in the brooks range. I have a couple on my wall. They are very good eating. I use everything I hunt. That is the way I was raised. I got my Pennsylvania doe with my grandpaps 1894 30 wcf. This year it was made in1909 God bless Frank. 😊

[garykirk]

You'd probably enjoy a night of watching "our" (as my wife calls them) foxes. Have a couple gray, and I believe 1 red that come around in the evening/night. We do not directly feed them, but I do dump food scrap back in the woods away from the used part of my property. Would rather the critters get it back there than have them approaching the house, getting in the trash, and potentially having an interaction with kids or pets. They are however, very neat to watch from a distance. Side thought, have you ever thought about doing a video on the barking tree frog? And it's differences from a green tree frog, I know the MD DNR would like to have any sightings reported.

[mckee]

Hello : Question is there an abundance of mushrooms in Central Virginia and are any eatable?

[BiLuOma]

Almost like raccoons over here, taking whatever they can get. I don't think they come to explore new habitats. It is just that their own natural habitats get smaller and smaller by human development, like that train station, etc.

[patrickmcelrath]

the lynx was exterminated?? Thats awful. i once came across a red fox in the woods of ohio deep in winter it had a frozen fish head in its mouth so majestic

[ciaogali]

Sorry but there was nothing fascinating in the story about the fox and the video was repeating it self from different angels…..