Great photograph!
However, I found the following part of the accompanying story very interesting:
"Kathy Moran, a member of the jury for the contest, called it 'one of the strongest single storytelling photographs I have ever seen.' Moran, senior editor for natural history projects at National Geographic, added in a statement, 'The immediate impact of this photograph is that it appears as if the red fox is slipping out of its winter coat. What might simply be a straightforward interaction between predator and prey struck the jury as a stark example of climate change, with red foxes encroaching on Arctic fox territory.'"
I have a number of reference books on wildlife, and even the oldest ones show red foxes ranging all over almost all of Canada except for the Arctic islands. These references were published long before "climate change" became a buzz-phrase, and I find it interesting the "senior editor for natural history projects at National Geographic" somehow thinks warmer temperatures have allowed red foxes to move into northern Manitoba. In fact, the range of red and Arctic foxes has overlapped considerably ever since such reference books have been published.
