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Pizza Rat's Squirrel Successor Makes an Appearance in Park Slope

June 30, 2016 11:37am | Updated June 30, 2016 11:37am

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:

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. 

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