A few of you wrote about the naturalness of Davidson’s squirrels, prompting the archivist, Jan Blodgett, to send me this post <\/a>on the history of campus squirrels – it turns out that they were imported to add to the atmosphere of campus! Her post reminded me of an article written by a friend of mine for a Popular Science<\/em> blog, about a different article published in the Journal of American History<\/em> on the history of urban squirrels.<\/p>\n

The Popular Science<\/em> overview article is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The original Journal of American History<\/em> article is here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Enjoy these, and your weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few of you wrote about the naturalness of Davidson’s squirrels, prompting the archivist, Jan Blodgett, to send me this post on the history of campus squirrels – it turns out that they were imported to add to the atmosphere of campus! Her post reminded me of an article written by a friend of mine … <\/p>\n

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