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Meet the most famous pet fox on Instagram

Juniper is a 2-year-old fox with more followers šŸøthan you do on Instagram ā€” 2.2 million of them for her , where she appears frolicking in photos with a coterie of other animal pals, including a younger male fox named Fig, a dog named Moose and a pair of sugar gliders named Peach and Petunia. Sheā€™s one ofā™Š the Top 10 Pets on the social-media site and the only one on the list thatā€™s not a dog or a cat. And now, as so many social-media stars do, she has her own book.

writtenļ·½ by her human owner Jessika Coker (Chronicle Books), celebrates the vixen ā€” the official name for a female fox ā€” who lives in Florā€ida and enjoys painting with her paws.

Juniper came to meet Jessica shortly after her birth as the runt of a litter. Juniper is a tame fox. Tame foxes have over 4,000 genetic differences from wild foxes, making them unsuitable for life in the wild. Juniper is (mostly) litter-trainešŸŽd and gets along famously with Moose. ā€œEvery once in a while life will throw you a gift,ā€ writą¹„es Coker. ā€œMy gifts just happen to have fur and fang-toothed grins.ā€