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This is a fake image, has been documented in Finnish press. The photographer sprinkled cat food on the mushroom to get the fox to eat them.

But what makes the image fake? It's still a fox eating a shroom. Unless the shroom is fake or the fox is fake then it would be fake.

The image has not been manipulated as you point out. But typically in nature photography it is good practise to point out if the scene has been manipulated in some way. Taking photos of animals in captivity and presenting them as wild animals would be fake photo in my opinion.

Well I think it would be more accurate to say that the fox was tricked into eating the shroom by the photographer rather than to claim the image as fake

Yeah, that is more accurate. I sometimes do not spend enough time thinking about the wording when I see these exploitative images posted.

Fair enough. It reminds me of the Disney lemmings "documentary". In which they secretly pushed animals off a cliff and explicitly presented it as "something that lemmings normally do". It's rather morbid