This is about neither history nor politics, but it's too weird not to share. Apparently the squirrels are going hungry this year:
The idea seemed too crazy to Rod Simmons, a measured, careful field botanist. Naturalists in Arlington County couldn't find any acorns. None. No hickory nuts, either. Then he went out to look for himself. He came up with nothing. Nothing crunched underfoot. Nothing hit him on the head.
Then calls started coming in about crazy squirrels. Starving, skinny squirrels eating garbage, inhaling bird feed, greedily demolishing pumpkins. Squirrels boldly scampering into the road. And a lot more calls about squirrel roadkill.
But Simmons really got spooked when he was teaching a class on identifying oak and hickory trees late last month. For 2 1/2 miles, Simmons and other naturalists hiked through Northern Virginia oak and hickory forests. They sifted through leaves on the ground, dug in the dirt and peered into the tree canopies. Nothing.
The rest of the story is here.
2 comments:
It's the fundamentalists. They heard that there was something bad about Acorn(s), and they got after them.
Okay, that was pretty bad, I know.
I think you're close. Actually, Sarah Palin's followers heard her describe A.C.O.R.N.s as a leftist plot to steal the election, so they picked them all up, and are keeping them in stress positions in undisclosed locations.
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