How fussy are animals about what they eat?
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Couldn't think of a better title but bear with me.
Our garden backs onto a sports field with woods at the other side.
Lots of trees and plants and greenery everywhere.
So if you're a squirrel or a rabbit and you get up in the morning and you're surrounded by all that greenery why do you travel several hundred yards to sneak under my fence (the rabbit) to eat the plants in the garden?
It doesn't bother me it's what animals do and perhaps I'm thinking a bit too anthropomorphically but does a rabbit or a squirrel really think "I like the red flowers" and travel half a mile to eat them when there's an abundance of green stuff right under its nose?
Our garden backs onto a sports field with woods at the other side.
Lots of trees and plants and greenery everywhere.
So if you're a squirrel or a rabbit and you get up in the morning and you're surrounded by all that greenery why do you travel several hundred yards to sneak under my fence (the rabbit) to eat the plants in the garden?
It doesn't bother me it's what animals do and perhaps I'm thinking a bit too anthropomorphically but does a rabbit or a squirrel really think "I like the red flowers" and travel half a mile to eat them when there's an abundance of green stuff right under its nose?
paralla said:
The entire South London squirrel population go to extraordinary lengths to dig up the plants on my roof terrace (four storeys up) rather than eat anything from the massive park that we back onto.
Im sure they do it just to piss me off.
That's pretty much what I'm talking about Im sure they do it just to piss me off.
A field full of greenery and food but noooooo they like the plants in my f
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