Fox and Geese Battle it Out for Eggs | A Perfect Planet | 4K UHD | BBC Earth
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A cunning fox sneaked into the goose nest to take the eggs. The brave mother goose ruffled her feathers and rushed to fight to protect her children. A fierce struggle between survival instinct and maternal love took place.
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Mother is after eggs, but getting them is not going to be easy.
The geese will risk their lives to protect their eggs.
If they lose them, they can't produce another clutch this season.
She gives the first eggs to her young pups and then heads back for more.
Some of the eggs she stashes away.
They will be fooled to help her through the coming winter.
In just three weeks, she will steal over 800 eggs from the geese.
But eating a big egg is not easy if one is rather small.
It's a technique the pups haven't quite yet cracked.
Mum shows how it's done.