Figure 1. Schematic map of territories of seven Arctic Fox groups. Unlike the solid brick walls of the Humboldt University, the boundaries in this map are fictional, drawn as a single line or dot-dot-dot.

• our observations
• were made at the transition
• between shore
• and steep slopes.

One way or the other, the descriptions seems to portray a crime scene. The scientists are taking the roles of detectives, writing down evidence. But it is a crime that hasn’t taken place yet... or, it is happening here and now, in this very moment of recording.