WINTERWATCH followers have been left viewing open-mouthed as an X-rated show unfolded on their screens.
The mild nature present turned relatively extra sexual than the presenters have been bargaining for – as a gaggle of badgers engaged in a threesome.
Viewers have been watching the badgers in Love Island-style night time imaginative and prescient on the BBC Two night present.
The black and white creatures, who dwell in dens referred to as setts, then turned away from each other and rubbed their bums collectively.
It fell to host Gillian Burke to clarify what was occurring, saying: “They’re scent marking one another.
“A extra descriptive phrase can be ‘anal rubbing’.


“Now we do like a bit of little bit of anal rubbing on the watches right here so sure, that is what they do.”
Viewers shortly piled in on social media after the printed, which was dwell from Edinburgh Zoo.
One remarked, referring to an earlier remark about a big rodent who had appeared in shot: “Anal rubbing, and the beaver is out! Solely on #winterwatch.”
One other referred to as it a “Corridor of Fame dwell TV presenting second”.
Gillian who was co-presenting alongside Iolo Williams whereas Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan have been at a distinct shoot in Norfolk.