“Always by his side is a man named Paul Parker. Parker is a professional pest controller from Newcastle. He keeps 300 dead grays in his freezer, seven of them skinned, waiting for the day he will have time to cook them.” This is just one of the amazing quotes from the “The Squirrel Wars”, an excellent and informative article in this week’s NYT Magazine.
My sister thinks that because I am really a lemur in a meat puppet, it is a straight line to draw a comparison between my animal self and the squirrels. I do not really dispute this, but we did get into it over what kind of squirrel I would be. She sent me the following messages:
Katharine: squirrel face
what’s up
Katharine: you’re a squirrel
Katharine: and maybe i am a gray and you are a red
The grays are larger and tougher and meaner than the reds. They can eat newly fallen acorns, and the reds cannot. They cross open lands that the reds are scared of. They are more sociable than reds, allowing for higher population densities.
Katharine: you are more sociable, but i can cross open lands that you are scared of
She does live in Europe, where American gray squirrels immigrated and eventually took over. But I think that anyone should read the full text of the article and think it through independently. I am not a squirrel, by the way. I am a lemur in a meat puppet. Thats my story and I’m sticking to it.
talk of meat puppets is in the right direction.