A video shot in Ukraine of a wild fox skillfully making a sandwich went viral online.
The video was uploaded by Ukrainian journalists of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on April 23. They met the fox on the road to the Chornobyl exclusion zone.
When they threw some slices of bread and sausage to the ground, the wild animal not only picked them up, but actually built what looked like a perfectly assembled sandwich.
The journalists were returning from a reporting assignment in Pripyat, a dead city next to the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, when they encountered the fox at the city’s outskirts. An inhabitant of the zone that has been isolated since 1986 nuclear plant explosion, the fox looked thin and mangy.
The reporters stopped their car, and the animal approached them unafraid.
While feeding the fox, reporter Yevhen Solonyna explains on camera that the animals that settled in the abandoned city never experienced aggressive behavior from humans, thus they do not fear people.
The journalists were surprised to see the carnivorous animal eating bread.
The clever fox quickly became the star on top news websites, including BBC, Time, and Daily Mirror, all of which carried the video. It was watched 65,000 times alon on the YouTube channel of Radio Liberty where it was originally uploaded.
“Do you still think that we (humans) are the most
intelligent?” a YouTube user Pauletta de Troix jokingly commented on the video.
