"Jeff Wisnia" wrote


Not completely OT, but I received this book as a gift a while ago and it's
really a hoot.

http://tinyurl.com/bq9n9

About five years ago I converted the kids' old gumball machine into a
squirrel feeder. It took the little bushy tailed roof rats less than a day
to figure out how to crank it around to get themselves some dried corn.

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/nuts.jpg

(Last pix in the series is just a gag I lifted elsewhere.)

They chew up the wooden handle pretty good, I've had to replace it a
couple of times already.

Jeff

I saw a great program on, I believe on the Beeb. It was about squirrels,
and how they could figure out things. They had a competition to see who
could make a squirrel proof bird feeder. They used a section of threaded
wood beads about 1" in diameter, and six feet long. It didn't take them
long to figure out they had to run across really fast to make it. Quite a
few fell off first.

Then they went on to other things the squirrels had to figure out. The
whole show was very interesting and funny, as they showed some of the things
squirrels would do including one hanging from the other's feet to reach
something.

The engineering and creativity of the humans was interesting, too.

Steve