Canadian Wins for this Striking Photo
Don Gutoski, a London, Ont. emergency room doctor, was named Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his striking image of a red fox’s bloody victory over an Arctic fox.
As the organization’s Facebook page describes it, the photo, “is a beautiful but haunting portrait of the struggle for life in the subarctic climes of Cape Churchill, Canada.”
The Cape Churchill area is where the red fox and the Arctic fox habitats can overlap. ‘The Churchill guides had heard that the two species will occasionally fight, but no one we talked to had ever seen this behaviour,” said Dr. Gutoski.
‘I first noticed the red fox hunting and interacting with some prey and on closer approach realized that prey was a white Arctic fox. By the time I got close enough to capture the event, the fight was over and the victor was feeding. I took a number of pictures of the event, until the red fox had eaten its fill, and picked up the remains to find a hiding spot for a later meal.’