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Table 2. — Summary: Food items in blue-fox droppings, 

 Aleutian Islands, 1936 and 1937 



a cave filled with mummies (which are now in the U. S. National 

 Museum) , we discovered that blue foxes had torn some of these 

 apart, literally limb from limb, and had made themselves 

 thoroughly at home in the mummy cave. Obviously, blue foxes 

 find human flesh tasty, either fresh or dried. The tabulations 

 also indicate cannibalism. Presumably, most of the foxes that 

 were eaten were carrion. 



Disposition and Habits 



The Arctic fox is known to be tame and unafraid in the pres- 

 ence of man, not at all like the red fox. Steller has given a vivid 

 account of the reactions of blue foxes to Bering's shipwrecked 

 crew. They were exceedingly bold, and on some occasions they 

 would begin nibbling on exposed parts of a person if he were ly- 

 ing where a fox could get at him. 



