Little fox turns tables on photographer by also taking photos

When a professional photographer went to New Forest Wildlife Park in Hampshire, UK to snap some shots of the newest arrival, he was soon outfoxed by his young vixen subject.

The sly little fox, named Jessie after Toy Story's cowgirl character, had her own interest in photography and tried her hand at shooting some frames of the photographer who had come to capture her on film. Photographer Simon Czapp told Daily Mail: "Jessie was very playful and inquisitive and not at all camera shy. "Soon after I arrived she was chewing my shoes and everything seemed to be a game to her. Then she started exploring the camera I had set up on a tripod in her outdoor pen. "She stood on her hind legs to peer into the lens and then used a tree stump to get a better look at the back of the camera. She balanced her front paws on it and and one point knocked it over." After he moved the camera on the tripod closer to the tree stump, Jessie was back to investigating the fascinating gadget. She even stood with all four paws on it for awhile. Czapp said: "She jumped up there several times and I realized it could make a good picture. "As I was snapping away with the public's viewing window behind me, I thought I heard the camera go off but didn't think much of it. But when I checked the memory card afterwards, I was amazed to see Jessie had actually taken two frames of me photographing her. "I couldn't believe I had been outfoxed by a fox!" The park's head keeper Shanna Dymond said: "Jessie is a lovely little cub. She is very inquisitive and as soon as we go to see her, she runs up to say hello and wags her tail. "There were some lovely photos of her but she obviously thought the photographer was worthy of a picture too!" Jessie is 5-months old and was abandoned by her mother. She now lives at the wildlife center in a pen with a young male fox named Woody. They could not be released back into the wild because they were both too tame when they were first brought to the RSPCA earlier in the year.