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Duce  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why U.S. Parks Are Full of Squirrels

If anyone has ever been to the University of Illinois then you would know that the squirrels are very friendly to all humans. This is because there was a shortage of squirrels on campus and in order to counteract this the President of the university started a program to breed more squirrels on campus which would also be friendly. The squirrels were taken from the city and selected amongst squirrels who already showed comfort around humans.

I never realized that this happened elsewhere.

Source: http://archives.library.illinois.edu/blog/squirrels/