Veryl Goodnight, NSS - Fall Harvest (Life Size)

This life-size sculpture depicts a red fox making off with a ripe apple - an autumn delight for foxes. According to the artist: 

“The red fox is a true omnivore and its diet ranges from insects, rodents, small birds and mammals to a wide variety of plants including grasses, seeds, and fruit.  Individual foxes, like humans, have food preferences. Apple orchards are a major food source for foxes each fall.  Foxes will take more than they can eat and store the excess for the future.  They dig a hole, deposit the apple and then use their noses to push the dirt back over the apple.” --Veryl Goodnight

This sculpture is also available in a smaller maquette (the working model for the life-size piece) here: Fall Harvest Maquette.