A young polecat is being nursed back to health at a wildlife hospital after it was found clinging to his dead mother and sibling by the roadside.
A member of the public found the dehydrated polecat with the bodies of his family after they were hit by a car in the village of Alwalton, Peterborough.
Rescuers from the Wildlife Rescue and Emergency Network then took in the animal for the night before he was taken to Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital in Kibworth Harcourt.
Amy Blower, an animal care team leader at the hospital, said the young polecat, also known as a kit, would be trained how to survive and hunt before being released back into the wild.