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White foxes seen at Hangzhou high school and Guangzhou university are a hit online
Internet users in China spotted the slyest of creatures slinking around school campuses in both Hangzhou and Guangdong yesterday.
Images and video appeared on Chinese microblogging platform Sina Weibo showing a fox with snow-white fur near the grounds of Hangzhou Xiaoshan No 11 High School, and another traipsing across the Guangdong University of Finance and Economics campus in Sanshui.
At the Hangzhou school, a physical education teacher surnamed Xuan initially discovered the fox in the school’s field last Saturday morning.
“The animal’s head was not very big, around the size of a dog’s, and it had a narrow snout and long bushy tail,” Xuan recounted to mainland media. “I walked over slowly, but it didn’t run away, it just made a sound. It was staring at me intensely.”
When several people approached the fox, it bolted.