Fox

Jewel made entirely by hand by the Italian craftsman Gianmarco Fontana. Pendant made of 925 silver, which is part of the "Animalia" collection depicting a fox.

It is able to frequent areas ranging from the intensely cultivated plains to the forests and pastures of the alpine area up to over 2500 m. The hair is typically reddish-brown in the upper parts and whitish in the lower ones and on the tip of the tail, the ears are black; color variations are frequent according to the season and geographical distribution. It has a length of 70-90 cm, with 35-40 cm of tail, for a height at the withers of 30-40 cm; the weight fluctuates between 4 and 11 kg. It is an "opportunistic" predator and in its diet you can recognize: main food resources such as hares and small rodents; occasional food resources such as reptiles, amphibians, fish and all kinds of edible waste. The study of the diet of foxes in the Park has highlighted a significant peak in the presence of chamois and ibex in the summer months and during the late winter, confirming the opportunistic role of the species. In these periods the fox preys on the kids abandoned by their mothers or dead during childbirth and feeds on the remains of animals that have died of starvation. The species has a widespread distribution throughout the Park.