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Foxes

Chris Packham explores what makes animal groups successful. How are foxes bucking the trend of carnivores struggling to compete in a world with a rocketing human population?

Across the planet carnivores are struggling to compete in a world with a rocketing human population, but one predator is bucking the trend - the fox. Its numbers are increasing and its geographical range expanding.

Chris Packham explores the secrets to its success - its senses, its intelligence and its flexibility. New research reveals how its slit pupils enable it to hunt in the bright desert day; how it may be using the Earth's magnetic field to determine the location of prey during a pounce; and how regular exposure to rotting food is improving the health of the red fox, enabling it to hold its own in an increasingly urban landscape.

30 minutes

Music Played

  • Florence + the Machine

    Spectrum

  • Ellie Goulding

    Explosion

  • Foals

    Electric Bloom

  • Bastille

    Things We Lost In The Fire

  • Message to Bears

    Wake Me

  • Kimberly Anne

    Start Over

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterChris Packham
Executive ProducerJonny Keeling
DirectorLara Bickerton
ProducerLara Bickerton
Series ProducerAaron Paul

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