My son Keith came home for Thanksgiving from [The] Ohio State University with some tragic news. It seems a murder took place on the South Oval on the afternoon of November 9 in broad daylight.
Whitey the Albino Squirrel, a beloved South Campus celebrity resident, was taken out by a Cooper’s hawk before the horrified eyes of several students and at least one campus tour group.
Thirty to forty students gathered around the victim and his killer. Some even documented the event with their camera phones, but no one intervened.
In the media frenzy that followed, reporters have pursued this story relentlessly, and graphic photos have been posted online.
Now emotions are running high. It’s been suggested that the students’ unwillingness to get involved is emblematic of life on the nation’s largest college campus. While some claim that Whitey’s passing was part of the natural order of things, others see a more sinister explanation. Some claim to have seen the Cooper’s hawk at the OSU-Michigan game sitting in the Michigan section.
Kent State University’s famous black squirrels have donned white armbands in solidarity with Whitey. A Facebook page has been opened in his memory, and more than two thousand students have joined.
I have a different take on this—one with serious international implications.
Whitey was clearly a victim of global warming. The murder took place in mid-November. Had there been a blanket of snow on the South Oval, Whitey would have been naturally camouflaged and so escaped the hawk’s eagle eye.
For a map of albino squirrels spotted around the world, follow this link.
http://www.thewildclassroom.com/biomes/speciesprofile/deciduousforest.html
In the media frenzy that followed, reporters have pursued this story relentlessly, and graphic photos have been posted online.
Now emotions are running high. It’s been suggested that the students’ unwillingness to get involved is emblematic of life on the nation’s largest college campus. While some claim that Whitey’s passing was part of the natural order of things, others see a more sinister explanation. Some claim to have seen the Cooper’s hawk at the OSU-Michigan game sitting in the Michigan section.
Kent State University’s famous black squirrels have donned white armbands in solidarity with Whitey. A Facebook page has been opened in his memory, and more than two thousand students have joined.
I have a different take on this—one with serious international implications.
Whitey was clearly a victim of global warming. The murder took place in mid-November. Had there been a blanket of snow on the South Oval, Whitey would have been naturally camouflaged and so escaped the hawk’s eagle eye.
For a map of albino squirrels spotted around the world, follow this link.
http://www.thewildclassroom.com/biomes/speciesprofile/deciduousforest.html
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