If 2015 taught us anything, it was that the rats, squirrels and pigeons of this city love the same junk food as its humans do.
Hence, we present the following documentation of a squirrel nibbling a plain pizza slice in a tree in Park Slope Thursday morning as evidence that the lesson still applies in 2016:
Captured in his natural environment, the rare and elusive Park Slope pizza squirrel pic.twitter.com/1mRIn77gPF
— Ben Popper (@benpopper) June 30, 2016
Could this be the same squirrel a Gothamist tipster captured eating a folded slice in a neighborhood park last July? Could be, but this bushy-tailed rodent — photographed by Brooklyn native Ben Popper — seems to have consumed his pizza crust-first, and un-creased.
We commend him for dragging his take-out up the varmint equivalent of a four-story walkup.
