A video of a red fox breastfeeding baby koalas is viral on social media right now, but the video is not what people think it is.
As we all know, Australia was under fire from September last year until last month, and hundreds of videos and images went viral. Among them was a video of red fox breastfeeding koalas.
In the video, a red fox can be seen feeding baby “koalas”, but in reality, the babies were foxes too.
Daily India Times, a page on Facebook, shared a 33-second clip that shows a fox feeding babies, but the caption said those were baby koalas.
(Daily India Times deleted the video on their Facebook Page)
In reality, the video is 6 years old and has nothing to do with the bushfires that are going on in Australia.
Not only that, the red fox in the video is feeding fox kits, not baby koalas or monkeys.
The discovery was made by India Today Anti Fake News War through a number of reverse image searches and video scanning on YouTube.
This is not the first time the video was shared on social media with a misleading caption.
In 2018, “Around The World”, a channel on YouTube, uploaded the video with the caption of “Female fox feeding young monkeys, rare scene.”
Balkan Music, a YouTube channel, uploaded the video in 2016 with the caption of: “Mother Fox feeding her babies.”
Luc Durocher, a YouTuber, uploaded the same video in 2014 along with a number of videos that showed the red fox breastfeeding her baby kits.
The videos Luc shared had the caption written in French, which said, “Renards roux – Tétée”. The caption means Red Foxes- Feeding.
Luc shared multiple videos of the same red fox feeding her babies.
In the other videos that he shared, the red fox and her kits can be identified right away, but in other videos, the kits look like they are monkeys and koalas.
It is still not clear who shot the videos that Luc shared, but we can confirm that a number of social media pages and forums have shared the video along with false captions to gain followers.
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