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In the eastern state of Virginia, employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center are doing their best to act like mother foxes. They started feeding and caring for a baby fox, called a kit, when the young animal became separated from its mother.

在弗吉尼亚州东部，里士满野生动物中心的员工正在尽力表现得像狐狸妈妈。 当一只小狐狸与母亲走散后，他们开始喂养和照顾这只小狐狸。

The Associated Press reported that a video recently appeared on the center’s page on the social media service Facebook. In the video, Executive Director Melissa Stanley is shown wearing a red fox mask and equipment like rubber gloves. She feeds the young fox in the video. The kit sits on top of a stuffed animal that looks like a fox. It is supposed to look like her mother, Stanley said.

美联社报道称，社交媒体服务 Facebook 上该中心的页面最近出现了一段视频。 在视频中，执行董事梅丽莎·斯坦利戴着红狐面具和橡胶手套等装备。 视频中她正在喂小狐狸。 该套件位于一个看起来像狐狸的毛绒动物的顶部。 斯坦利说，它应该看起来像她的母亲。

The Facebook post explained why employees were wearing the fox mask to feed the baby animal. It also said workers are avoiding making human sounds and are preventing the kit from seeing its human caregivers. The post said the orphan should not become too close to humans while it is being raised by them. The measures make it more likely that the kit could be returned to the wild.

Facebook 的帖子解释了为什么员工戴着狐狸面具来喂养小动物。 它还表示，工作人员正在避免发出人类的声音，并阻止该套件看到它的人类护理人员。 帖子称，孤儿在被人类抚养的过程中不应该与人类走得太近。 这些措施使得该套件更有可能回归野外。

Stanley said a man brought the kit to the center on February 29. She said he found the animal on the street while walking his dog in Richmond.

斯坦利说，2月29日，一名男子将这个工具箱带到了该中心。她说，他在里士满遛狗时在街上发现了这只动物。

Thinking she was a baby cat, the man turned her over to the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Richmond SPCA). The Richmond SPCA is a nonprofit organization that takes in cats and dogs without owners and finds them homes.

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