Around half a million fox cubs are born in the UK every year and this month most of them will be making their first safari above ground.

For a while they follow their mother around as she attempts to teach them how to find food.  However, faced with an exciting new world to discover, and coupled with a very short attention span, the cubs usually just end up playing a game with everything they find.  Great fun to watch.

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