The fox is a clever beast, famously outsmarting human and animal rivals in ancient fables, recent movies and a current Top 10 song. Humanity's relationship with the fox has long been balanced between bemused tolerance and "let's shoot them for fun and raise them in cages, for fur." But there are abundant signs that the foxes have had quite enough of people, and are making coordinated global moves to take over civilization.

The United States corporate-government axis has two headquarters, one at the White House in the shuttered District of Columbia, and the other in Silicon Valley at Facebook's campus. Both locations have fallen to wild foxes.

As the weak and diseased American government falls apart, the once-pristine White House grounds have become wild and overgrown, with squirrels brazenly raiding the first lady's prized garden and a single satisfied fox burrowed within striking distance of the president himself.

In California, an entire family of sinister foxes live on the Facebook campus, their presence welcomed by the company's highly paid data spies and even praised by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Unmolested, the foxes have learned the language and habits of their human hosts. They don't need to sneak around or break their way inside one of the world's most powerful corporations, because they've been welcomed onto the property.

The Fantastically cheeky Mr Fox: The astonishing pictures which show the urban fox is getting VERY big for his boots.They are everywhere and they act as if they own the place.

'The foxes were here before us, and this land is theirs too'

Just like British author Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox, this fox was unafraid of humans.

The baby seal that was captured after escaping from the zoo has been put down to be made into fox food, despite campaigning attempts by Icelanders to spare its life.

Director of the Reykjavík Family Park And Zoo Tómas Óskar Guðjónsson confirmed for Vísir that the baby seal, who earlier this week escaped the zoo and was captured at a nearby campsite, has been killed. This was not meant as a punishment or to be a deterrent against others attempting to make a break for it – rather, all seals born at the zoo that cannot be cared for are put down, due to limited space.

The execution went forward despite the creation of a Facebook group shortly after its capture imploring the zoo to spare the life of the baby seal. Many of the Icelanders commenting in the group are angry over the execution, and have vowed to boycott the zoo altogether.

It should be known that the baby seal did not die in vain, as its remains will go towards the continuation of life in the form of fox food. This may be a more dignified ending for a seal than other alternatives, though, such as ending up on the grill to be dined on by zoo employees, as is often done with zoo animals put down in the autumn.

Yellowknife lawyer Christian Lyons was on his way home when five foxes gave chase. 'They were then closing the gap toward me with some intent,' says Lyons, a practising lawyer.

'Is this a fox-zombie apocalypse or something?' Christian Lyons thought as the animals persisted.