[Durham INC] We could have had no urban squirrels

[Pat]

But then we built urban parks….
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/12/how-cities-almost-killed-common-squirrel/7908/
July 4, 1856: Bystanders gather under a tree in New York's Central Park. Their excitement attracts more people until the crowd numbers in the hundreds. Somebody props a ladder against the trunk. Another grabs a 20-foot-long pole and jabs it into the leaves.
Did the circus lose a fez-wearing monkey? Hardly anything so ordinary! It was a gray squirrel, which had escaped from a cage in an apartment building and scurried across traffic to take refuge in the park.The amount of attention New Yorkers lavished on that single nut-chewing furball might seem insane by today's standards. But a century and a half ago, a squirrel in the city was as remarkable as a carriage pulled by pachyderms. That fact was made clear in an article The New York Times ran about the incident, titled “An Unusual Visitor.” A police officer eventually had to disperse the agitated crowd, the paper noted, although not before a young man tried to grab the squirrel and "released him immediately, as the animal's teeth proved sharper than he had bargained for." 		 	   		  
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