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Google’s $1 Billion HQ Overtaken By Foxes In Bizarre Rooftop Invasion
With issues ranging from lawsuits to hacking attacks to artificial intelligence, Google is no stranger to intrusions. The corporation is currently dealing with a completely different kind of invasion, as some furry pals have taken up residence at its $1 billion headquarters in the United Kingdom.
Even though Google has been building a so-called “landscraper” since 2018, some unanticipated visitors could cause a setback. As the company’s UK headquarters, the enormous structure would rise 11 stories above the London skyline and house 7,000 people, making it the eighth-largest office skyscraper in Europe.
According to The Guardian, a skulk—a term for a pack of foxes—is currently occupying Google’s King’s Cross headquarters and is causing problems for the tech hub.
With the top of the building being a luscious roof garden, one source familiar with construction has told the outlet how the foxes are causing havoc by digging burrows into the gardens: “There’s a little hole in the garden where one lives. We’ve seen her all around the building – one second she’s on the fifth floor, the next she’s on the garden floor. No one has been able to catch her.”
Others say they have spotted fox droppings on the property of the recently constructed but empty structure.
According to Mosh Latifi, a co-director of pest control firm EcoCare, the foxes could be living off rats. London is known for its high population of rats, as well as its opportunistic foxes: “Foxes thrive quite well on rodents – we don’t live more than three metres away from the nearest rat.”
According to Latifi, foxes have been observed consuming food left by employees, while another unnamed pest management specialist hypothesised that the animals may be sustained by food from nearby companies and leaky pipes: “London is a big playground for foxes – they will go absolutely anywhere.”
The news of the foxes was first reported by the London Centric newsletter, writing, “The contractors managing the final fit out of the new Google building in King’s Cross are having to deal with a ‘skulk’ of foxes (apparently that is the collective noun). I’m told the foxes colonized the building in the early stages when it was still quite accessible and are now living on the top floor which is like a small park.”
There are concerns over whether the mother made it up there in the early days and has just gotten marooned by surviving on the birds and rodents that the park is intended to attract, given that red foxes often live three to four years. As an alternative, the skulk can enter and exit the building as it pleases and has easy access to the ground floor.
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