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Foxes Dig In: Google's £1bn London HQ's Rooftop Garden Invaded

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Google's £1bn London headquarters in King's Cross features a 300-meter-long rooftop garden, now home to foxes digging burrows in its 40,000 tonnes of soil. The 11-storey 'landscraper' is designed to accommodate 7,000 employees and includes a running track winding through 250 trees. A source noted, 'There's a little hole in the garden where one lives.'

The rooftop garden, intended to support bees, bats, birds, and butterflies, now hosts foxes possibly feeding on scraps left by construction workers. Pest control experts suggest they could also be living off rats, as 'we don't live more than three metres away from the nearest rat.' The foxes' adaptability turns Google's green oasis into an urban wildlife sanctuary.

In 2011, a fox named Romeo was discovered living in London's Shard skyscraper, surviving on construction workers' leftovers before being captured and released back into the city.

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