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Squirrels Are Unintentionally Luring Bears to Railroad Tracks
(Thanks to Bill Rudersdorf in Houston. Stay dry, Bill.)
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Who among us hasn't set up food on railroad tracks to see the impact on an apex predator?
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | August 31, 2017 at 02:14 PM
Squirrel "middens". There's a word you don't hear everyday.
Posted by: LeDud | August 31, 2017 at 02:27 PM
People middens = picnic baskets
Posted by: Clankie | August 31, 2017 at 03:02 PM
Protecting the cakes by eliminating the bears.
Posted by: FredKey | August 31, 2017 at 05:35 PM
"Stopping those seed leaks, say the researchers, is the only way to keep them safe."
Nonsense. I'll bet they didn't even try telling the squirrels to put their middens further from the tracks before jumping to that conclusion.
Posted by: Richard the Weasel-Hearted | August 31, 2017 at 06:33 PM
Sounds like the squirrels have a "loco motive".
Thank you...
Posted by: Burt Macklin, FBI | August 31, 2017 at 06:45 PM
Ol' Romney is darn worthy for something after all - his nickname can help red squirrel fans recall that middens are stores and casches of seeds put away bt them for winter that bears are getting run over by trains in Canada over...whew...
Posted by: EP RamosPhD | August 31, 2017 at 08:14 PM