Google battling fox incursion on roof of £1bn London office
www.theguardian.com
Foxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters
  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    22 hours ago

    Honestly would be nice if they could make it a litte nature reserve, I mean they want bats, butterflies, bees , but not foxes? They are very arguably adorable neighbors

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      25·
      21 hours ago

      They are very arguably adorable neighbors

      They look super cute, definitely. And if you don’t have to sleep near there, they’re probably great.

      But foxes tend to be horrible neighbors at night. They scream like someone is murdering babies.

      • Obelix@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        9 hours ago

        They scream like someone is murdering babies.

        I’m sure those sociopaths at Google will like that.

      • Airowird@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        19 hours ago

        Shouldn’t be a problem for an office building.

        Unless Google intends to Musk it up and “strongly encourage” employees sleep at the office.

    • talEnglish
      9·
      21 hours ago

      It says that they found fox droppings, but, then, some years back I remember when they hired a company to have a herd of goats graze their lawn down at the Googleplex, and that has to be worse on that front.

      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/google-rents-goats-to-mow-the-lawn-11402182/

      Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we’ve rented some goats from California Grazing to do the job for us (we’re not “kidding”). A herder brings about 200 goats and they spend roughly a week with us at Google, eating the grass and fertilizing at the same time. The goats are herded with the help of Jen, a border collie. It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers.