My cousin who lives in Plumstead SE London saw two foxes playing on her lawn yesterday morning. She is surprised that they are so far into the city and not just on the commons surrounding her area.
According to the National Geographic there are more than 10.00 foxes roaming the capitals streets. That's 16 foxes for every square mile [2.6 square kilometres] of London.
These urban foxes are noticeably bolder than their country cousins, sharing pavements with pedestrians and raising cubs in people's gardens. Foxes have even sneaked into the Houses of Parliament, where one was found asleep on a filing cabinet. Another broke into the grounds of Buckingham Palace, reportedly killing some of Queen Elizabeth II's prized pink flamingos.
A young fox not content with living in someones garden shed, was found living op the top floor of, what will be, London's tallest building !
And the Hayward Gallery on London's Southbank must have thought, 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' and erected a huge straw fox in 2011.
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It's funny how adaptable urban foxes are! That one found in London's tallest building was taken to an Animal Rescue Centre. I saw a news report on it and a member of staff at the rescue centre said "We explained to the fox that if foxes were meant to be 72 storeys off the ground, they would have evolved wings!" A nice light-hearted end to the tale!
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