Simon – a human-friendly fox, whom often approaches groups in the exclusion zone, asking for food.
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These photos were shot during a 2-day trip in Chernobyl’s exclusion zone with a full spectrum camera and a 590nm infrared filter from Kolari Vision by Vladimir Migutin in 2018.
"While the only creatures that have been definitively proven to see infrared light are cold-blooded, there are some exciting signs that suggest that foxes — and perhaps other nocturnal mammals like coyotes as well — can read light that appears on the infrared spectrum"
For animals that can see in this wavelength, life in Chernobyl may appear to them just as it does for us in these images.🦊
Given their vertical slit pupils, I wonder if foxes see in wavelengths we don't consider, like infrared. Below is a fox doing 'the foxtrot' to avoid being seen by an IR camera if I ever saw such a thing! 😍 (They may just be noticing the device has changed and that it is not the usual device)