Just heard it on the news! (CBC) (Okay, the story’s not up yet, but I did find this about another prairie dog plague, and cite it here for its subhead: “Burrowing bioweapon corpse-feast dog-squirrel horror” (The Register).
Photo of anonymous prairie dog filched from restonian.com.
Well nature has a way to correct ecological faults. We shooed the carnivores from the city so the dogs multiplied too much.
It’s only a matter of time before mother nature takes care of us.
I have this fantasy that our species will be wiped out by a peanut allergy and everyone else will live happily ever after.
But are the Richardson Ground Squirrels okay?