OK, after the last post which was a bit downbeat (not to say
turgid even), let’s have something of little consequence but a bit lighter:
I always thought that squirrels were vegetarians which lived on nuts, berries, acorns, and birds’ eggs. It surprised me, therefore, when I read recently that they will sometimes kill and eat other rodents including rats. So how much more surprised was I when I witnessed – three times no less over the past couple of days – a juvenile rat not much bigger than a house mouse chasing an adult squirrel away from areas of ground where bits of food occasionally drop from the birds’ feeding table? The squirrel fled and the baby rat continued to scavenge.
Should I cheer?
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