Photos: New fox makes a friend at the Wildlife Conservation Center

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Storm the marbled red fox spent her first day in the enclosure with Jade the red fox at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Portage, AK on Tuesday, March 8, 2016. The marbled fox came to the center from a Montana home where she was kept at a pet.

Employees at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center were breathing a sigh of relief Tuesday morning as the center's newest rescue animal, a female marble fox named Storm, quickly took to her new surroundings.

Storm was released into her new enclosure with Jade, the center's 3-year-old male red fox, at around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, said animal supervisor Sarah Howard. Storm joins numerous other rescue animals at the conservation center, which sits on more than 200 acres of land roughly an hour's drive south of Anchorage.

"She came right out and was walking around with all of us in here, so that's an amazing sign," said fox trainer Teal Goodsell, who spent the morning watching over the foxes.

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