Is this Sir David Attenborough's saddest-ever scene? Starving arctic foxes turn ... trends now
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Starving arctic foxes turn to cannibalism as they battle climate change and lack of food in one of the saddest scenes filmed for a Sir David Attenborough programme.
In a heartbreaking moment on BBC series Mammals, desperate foxes are seen feeding on one of their own who himself is believed to have collapsed and died from starvation.
Rising temperatures in the Arctic have caused the sea to freeze over later in the year and, without sea ice, it means the foxes are unable to hunt.
Desperate and starving, the latest episode sees them resort to cannibalism in order to survive in one of the most gruesome and saddest scenes the broadcaster has ever shot.
In scenes some viewers might find too unbearable to watch, the episode shows a skulk of foxes fighting over the carcass that has starved to death on Canada's Hudson Bay.
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