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Loki:
I have seen a similar effecr with ravens (or crows, cannot tell them apart). In my home city, you barely see any. In my current town, which is a lot smaller and more peaceful, they will sometimes hop by within half a meter of you.
cesium133:
When I went to NYC, the Central Park pigeons walked right up to me. I think they wanted food. Here the squirrels behave similarly. I've had a squirrel walk up to me while I was carrying food and lay flat on the ground as a way of begging for some food. Somewhere on my computer I have a picture I took of him.
lepetitfromage:
I have 2 pigeon stories from my time living in NYC.
On my way in to class one day, a pigeon decided to hop on the train. He rode the train for one stop, turned around and hopped off. I'll never forget that.
Another story I'll never forget (for different reasons):
I was headed to the Virgin magastore in Union Square to pick up the new RHCP album on the day it came out (Stadium Arcadium). As I'm crossing the street, I feel something brush against the upper left part of my head. It was windy and crowded, so I figured maybe someone dropped a plastic bag or something. I reached up to brush it away and felt feathers. And a foot. I was so taken aback that I didn't even react at first. Eventually it sunk in that a pigeon flew into the side of my head and I was amused yet still slightly shaken. Little did I know, this would eventually come back to haunt me. A few years ago, Nick bought a sun conure. I was hesitant but knew that it would make him happy. I tried to warm up to it and let it sit on my hand for a while. It then decided that it would travel up my arm and sit on my head. Apparently, that was my cue to panic and I started to cry. We started the process of re-homing Birdie shortly thereafter. :-\
Papersatan:
When we moved to Michigan the squirrels took some getting used to. The are a different species than the squirrels in Rochester. Rochester has Eastern Grey Squirrels, and these are Fox Squirrels. The Fox Squirrels, in addition to being larger and a different color have much different behavior. The will let you get much closer than grey squirrels; I've had to play the "which way are you going? I'll go left, no my left..." game a number of times when walking because they just don't run away. On the campus this is partially because people feed them, but even where I live they behave this way. I did some research and it seems that before humans, Grey squirrels lived in dense forests and are not comfortable being on the ground for long, while fox squirrels lived in meadows near the edges of woods, so they don't run to a tree for safety at the first sign of trouble.
Also, over the course of this post I have learned how to spell squirrel. Thanks Chrome squiggle line of spelling help.
GarandMarine:
Squirrel!
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