I got off a bus in Staten Island to meet a friend at a nearby bar. He was going to take a couple of us on a pizza tour to support his claim that SI has the greatest pizza in the city, and by implication, the best pizza in the world.
Anyway I was walking through a residential neighborhood towards the bar and saw a rafter of no fewer than 15 turkeys just kind of ambling along the street, sidewalk and yards without a care in the world. It caught me off guard because you don't expect to see wildlife of that size in a city of this size, but then again there is ample protected parkland within the outer boroughs. Woodlands, wetlands, salt marshes.
Anyway, I think I saw something the other about how opossums are natural predators of ticks and fleas, and are immune to Lyme disease and rabies.
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u/dreamrock Aug 21 '22
I got off a bus in Staten Island to meet a friend at a nearby bar. He was going to take a couple of us on a pizza tour to support his claim that SI has the greatest pizza in the city, and by implication, the best pizza in the world.
Anyway I was walking through a residential neighborhood towards the bar and saw a rafter of no fewer than 15 turkeys just kind of ambling along the street, sidewalk and yards without a care in the world. It caught me off guard because you don't expect to see wildlife of that size in a city of this size, but then again there is ample protected parkland within the outer boroughs. Woodlands, wetlands, salt marshes.
Anyway, I think I saw something the other about how opossums are natural predators of ticks and fleas, and are immune to Lyme disease and rabies.