Tucson woman, Esmeralda Egurrola, got some fancy new Blink motion-activated cameras as a gift, and she decided to set them up along her back fence to spy on the wildlife in the Arizona desert beyond her property.
Shortly after putting them up, the cameras were stolen.
Here's the final footage the cameras recorded.
Shawnee Riplog-Peterson the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum curator says,
"It's definitely a gray fox.
"They are just so inquisitive," she said. "This is probably the original porch pirate."
Egurrola is not sure why the fox took her cameras though she has an idea.
She thinks the fox wants her to come out and enjoy nature in person rather than watching on a camera.
Riplog-Peterson has a more scientific opinion.
Egurrola uses a vanilla-scented lotion, which would linger on the cameras. The cameras were taken just 12 hours after they were set up, so the scent would still be lingering on the cameras. She says that zookeepers at the Desert Museum provide smells like vanilla to the captive animals there all the time to keep them stimulated and entertained.
And foxes are naturally inquisitive about new smells, so it took the cameras to sniff them some more.
I don't know.
Both those explanations sound like hippie, tree-hugging nonsense to me.
I think the fox was enforcing ARS § 13-3019 that makes surreptitious photographing, videotaping, filming or digitally recording any person without their knowledge in their restroom or bathroom.
See that bush in the video?
That's probably where the fox does its business.
It was exercising its right to privacy.
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