Red squirrel and grey squirrel
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The North American
Grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788) belongs to the Family: Sciuridae, Order: Rodents, Class: mammals. The Common European squirrel, or
Red squirrel, (Sciurus vulgaris, Linnaeus 1758) belongs to the Family: Sciuridae, Order: Rodents, Class: mammals. What strategy would you use in order to eradicate the Red squirrel? Introduce
packs of wolves? Perhaps allow the hunting of Red squirrels all year round, even by sixteen-year-olds? Or spread baited traps throughout the woods? In addition to not being a final solution, all of these measures would be highly visible, would soon be discovered and would undoubtedly solicit a reaction from the protectors of red squirrels in particular and from animal lovers in general. In order to eradicate all the red squirrels from an area, you have to
introduce into its territory some other mammal that
competes for the same food resources, one that occupies the red squirrel’s space, one that is better able to store fat to carry it through the winter and, if possible, one that is a carrier of infection for the red squirrel. If the mammal in question also happens to be another squirrel, let’s say the grey squirrel, then the strategy is absolutely perfect. As a matter of fact, wherever the grey squirrel has arrived in Europe, the red squirrel has disappeared.
Within the PDwithoutanel,
Massimo D'Alema is the perfect equivalent of a grey squirrel. In order to annihilate a party of thoroughbred red squirrels like Enrico Berlinguer no quarter was given. As well as D'Alema, an entire colony of grey squirrels was also introduced: from Violante, the absent-minded mafia sympathiser from Collegno, to La Torre, the
collaborator of the wolves, through to Fassino, the decoy squirrel. In other woods, such as those of the
Psi, it was sufficient to introduce a bulimic and voracious squirrel like the mother of all squirrels, namely Craxi. In that case, however,
even the woods disappeared together with all of the red squirrels. The former socialist grey squirrels migrated to all of the woods of the Second Republic, from the Lega’s Padanian woods, to Andreotti and Lima’s Sicilian Mafia woods, through to Fini’s post-fascist woods and, obviously, also the salmon pink, caviar and yacht woods of the post-communists.
So as to maintain the status quo, whenever new colonies of red squirrels develop from time to time, the system attempts to
infiltrate some grey squirrels into them. This is a warning to the remaining red squirrels: should you find a grey squirrel anywhere in your woods, don’t hesitate to feed them to the
martens.
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Ps: "The petition against Roberto Formigoni (in other words against his election as Regional Premier of Lombardy) has been assigned to Judge Alda Maria Vanoni, section president of the Milan Court. The first hearing has been scheduled for 8 July 2010 at the Milan Court ". Vito Crimi - MoVimento 5 Stelle Lombardia.
Posted by Beppe Grillo at 06:28 AM in Politics
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I will be happy to take back all of our Grey Squirrels if we can return to you your Starlings.
Posted by: Charlie Willey | June 7, 2010 04:49 AM