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Published: 2009-02-26 18:02:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 31131; Favourites: 1708; Downloads: 419
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Here is one of the Joker cards for the Endangered Ark card deck ( [link] ). He's in your outback, eating your numbats.Taking second place to feral house cats, the red fox is one of Australia's most problematic invasive predator. They were originally brought over in 1855 from Europe for the purpose of recreational hunting. Since then, their numbers have exploded, estimated around 7 million animals. They are responsible for the decline of many small marsupials, including the numbat. The fox is a very adaptable, elusive and prolific animal, and as such, is nearly impossible to contain or control. It continues to decimate populations of native species and there is no foreseeable solution.
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they're also great to test yout suspension on
Hey, what do you expect? I grew up in the wool sheds of South Aus
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As much as I love the creatures. Its terrible to know that it's because of us that they are doing such things to their environment.
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When will people learn that relocating a species to another region where it isn't naturally found never ends well. X(
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Beautiful!! Looks very realistic!! ITS AWESOME!!
the red fox is my favorite animal and this rocks!!
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Really beautiful, and really true ):
How sad are we, humans. We provoke our own problems and let it become a mess, just to regret later.
Gorgerous drawing and painting
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Wow, great picture. The fox looks beautiful.
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I love the critters, but they really need to go.. I've never even seen a red fox in real life, much less Australia, but the pictures I've seen have shown them mange-covered and in poor condition- why not kill two birds with one stone?
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I lurve foxes :3! Very well done...hey! We have similar icons XD!
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You know, dingoes are very effective predators of foxes (and feral cats, too). Yet we still shoot and poison them, and fence them behind stupid giant dingo fences.
*shakes head*
Great pic.
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I thought it was brought over to stop the rabbits (which was also brought over for sport).
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Wow, didn't know it was such a problem, but I can't deny that foxes are my favorite animal. 
P.S. Love the eyes of the red fox; how you draw and paint the eyes blow me away each time.
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Makes you wonder why we're the ones on top of the food chain.
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Wow. That's why humans are dumbm - taking creatures and transplanting them. Great work on this.
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Basically the opposite for the reasons of the Endangered Ark card deck 
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It's definitely not funny the way people refuse to think of the consequences until they are dealing with them.
Beautiful piece.
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The artwork itself is just amazing. I'm almost speechless!
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The Cane toad is the worst, it eats everything!!!!
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Really beautiful work. I HATE introduced species and what they do to the environment. The only one I know of that hasn't hurt anything was the camel in Australia because they already leave a very small footprint on their environment which helps them survive in the desert. Here in the US, you are allowed to hunt the birds that the English introduced ages back.
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x33; I'm starting to run out of words to say how great your guys' works are!
seeing as you do traditional work, have you ever made a wrong stroke at a time you could not go back and just fix it? What kind of things do you do when the unpredictable occurs?
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Ah yes--I've actually destroyed a number of pieces over the years. Most things with paint are fixable, though something like getting stray blobs of paint on a nice sky wash, or knocking my coffee onto my painting, or having unfortunate masking fluid mishaps are irreparable. ;]
Then, you just have to scrap the piece and move onto something else.
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yes, were worst than rabbits and shall dominate the world soon! *evil foxish laugh*
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I had no idea that the fox was problematic in Australia. Very interesting, and quite sad. Beautiful piece!
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They are some adaptable little buggers! Really, we should've known better than to introduce them there. Introducing non-native species is a bad idea at the best of times; seeing as how Australia had such a unique evolutionary and environmenal situation, it was devastating.
We got ours, though...a, kudzu. *sighs*
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oh yes when I saw this on the endangered ark card website I was like... WHAT? red foxes are most certainly not endangered (I come from aussie) However now that I know its your joker card it all totally makes sense :} clever idea might I add.
really wonderful texture and color here. I love how the fox almost blends into the scenery but the eyes still pop. very natural!
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This is so good!!
((As usual))
But what media is it in?
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It's mostly acrylic. :]
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The only Error on this Earth is Humans
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Oh wow, detail here is impeccable. Great work!
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I thought they had been brought over to control the rabbit overpopulation there? Anyways, nice work!
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I'd always been under the impression that they did just get introduced here for sport... I've had a look around the net and most sites seem to corroborate that. Here's what the Australian Goverment website had to say:
"The European red fox was deliberately introduced to Australia for recreational hunting in 1855 and fox populations became established in the wild in the early 1870s. Within 100 years the fox had spread across most of Australia, though it currently does not occur in the tropical north and some off-shore islands remain fox free."
- [link]
From what they say about the rabbit it sounds like at least some people were still releasing them after the fox had started being introduced.
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ohhhh mi furry god... is a nice foxy.... *add to +fav *
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i love it XD
its eyes are so pircing and ears are allfluffy, and i just wanna hug it!!
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awesome card
too bad about the foxes, that marks another foreign species introduced to Australia and thus messing with the ecosystem....Rabbits are a huge problem too >>
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Can't live with'em, can't live without'em. I love it. =3
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Amazing work! Love the barbed wire and the wood. <3
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You know I saw a fox yesterday leaving work, he hopped a barb wired fence and looked back after a few yards looking at his paw, I guess he nicked it slightly. Poor little things
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brilliant picture and the kill in the mouth is a nice touch ;3
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