{"id":32060,"date":"2025-07-17T23:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32060"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:24:02","slug":"beware-of-swiper-a-fox-at-grand-teton-park-with-a-penchant-for-footwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32060","title":{"rendered":"Beware of \u2018Swiper,\u2019 a Fox at Grand Teton Park With a Penchant for Footwear"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One or more foxes have stolen at least 32 shoes, according to park officials, who warned campers to guard their belongings.<\/p>\n

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Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, known for its majestic mountain vistas and rich flora and fauna, has recently added another distinction of sorts: At least one wily fox there has been surreptitiously relieving campers of their shoes since mid-June.<\/p>\n

\u201cWanted for grand theft footwear,\u201d the National Park Service announced on June 26 with a poster featuring an illustration of a fox gripping a sneaker in its teeth. \u201cCrimes: Stealing left shoes (they taste better), flip-flops and campers\u2019 pride.\u201d<\/p>\n

The whimsical wanted poster, which branded the fox the Sneaker Snatcher, the Midnight Mismatcher and Swiper the Fox, was part of the park\u2019s initial effort to warn campers that parkgoers\u2019 shoes had been vanishing.<\/p>\n

An accompanying poster stapled to a pole near the Lizard Creek Campground<\/a> tallied 19 stolen pieces of footwear and suggested that the culprit was still on the prowl: \u201c0 days since last fox\/shoe incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But last week, as the tally of purloined footwear rose to 32, Grand Teton posted a video to Instagram<\/a> scolding campers for intentionally leaving out their footwear as offerings for the thieving fox \u2014 \u201cjust in case he visits.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the video \u2014 set to audio of a scene from the 2008 animated movie \u201cMadagascar: Escape 2 Africa\u201d \u2014 a would-be camper leaves a pair of hiking boots outside a tent and the Sneaker Snatcher, played by a stuffed and mounted fox, thanks them for the sacrifice.<\/p>\n

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One or more foxes have stolen at least 32 shoes, according to park officials, who warned campers to guard their belongings.Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, known for its majestic mountain vistas and rich flora and fauna, has recently added another distinction of sorts: At least one wily fox there has been surreptitiously relieving campers of their shoes since mid-June.\u201cWanted for grand theft footwear,\u201d the National Park Service announced on June 26 with a poster featuring an illustration of a fox gripping a sneaker in its teeth. \u201cCrimes: Stealing left shoes (they taste better), flip-flops and campers\u2019 pride.\u201dThe whimsical wanted poster, which branded the fox the Sneaker Snatcher, the Midnight Mismatcher and Swiper the Fox, was part of the park\u2019s initial effort to warn campers that parkgoers\u2019 shoes had been vanishing.An accompanying poster stapled to a pole near the Lizard Creek Campground tallied 19 stolen pieces of footwear and suggested that the culprit was still on the prowl: \u201c0 days since last fox\/shoe incident.\u201dBut last week, as the tally of purloined footwear rose to 32, Grand Teton posted a video to Instagram scolding campers for intentionally leaving out their footwear as offerings for the thieving fox \u2014 \u201cjust in case he visits.\u201dIn the video \u2014 set to audio of a scene from the 2008 animated movie \u201cMadagascar: Escape 2 Africa\u201d \u2014 a would-be camper leaves a pair of hiking boots outside a tent and the Sneaker Snatcher, played by a stuffed and mounted fox, thanks them for the sacrifice.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32062,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32063,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions\/32063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}