Taxidermy Red Fox and Rabbit

Latin: Vulpes vulpes

Description: Taxidermy Red fox and Rabbit 'Hide and seek' diorama. Very competent taxidermy set amongst detailed naturalistic rockwork. Unfortunately no makers label but very much in the style of Victorian taxidermist H. Murray, and his apprentice Thomas Salkeld.

Red foxes feature prominently in the folklore and mythology of human cultures with which they are sympatric. In Greek mythology, the Teumessian fox or Cadmean vixen, was a gigantic fox that was destined never to be caught. The earliest historical records of fox hunting come from the 4th century BC; Alexander the Great is known to have hunted foxes and a seal dated from 350 BC depicts a Persian horseman in the process of spearing a fox.

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