So, that video where the squirrel chases two crows away from a second, squished squirrel? Touching, heartbreaking, the very soul of loyalty? No. I don’t think so. Humans are vulnerable to misinterpreting animal behavior for many reasons. But at work in this case is our social nature. We’re an “obligate social” species — we can’t [...]
I’m remembering a glistening winter afternoon in Boston, Dan and I strolling through the Common on our way back to the train station after a theater matinee. I’d slipped some unshelled peanuts into my coat pocket before we left home, in anticipation of the famously tame Boston Common squirrels. Here, squirrelly-squirrelly, I said, then drew [...]
So, it seems that Nutley the squirrel paved the way for Frank the squirrel by softening up the mistress of the manor and her feline sidekick. Frank is shy and skinny with a nick in his ear, but clearly the brains of the operation. He snarfs more than half the peanuts in the time it [...]
Hi, readers of Hannah! This is Monica Wood, nonblogging novelist and FOH (Friend of Hannah). Our mutual friend’s all upside-down over a book deadline, so this is the equivalent of giving her tea and sympathy: six days off from blogging. I’m a nice person; ask anyone. A no-poison-in-flower-garden, recycle-cat-food-cans, save-the-marmots kinda gal. Saw An Inconvenient [...]
