Location: Residential area at Yonge and Eglinton
Date photo taken: 17 February 2016
It’s nice to have friends. Or at least a good PR team. Walking in a residential neighbourhood near Yonge and Eglinton, my eye was drawn to this page attached to a street pole. It seeks to educate those in the neighbourhood about a new resident in the area – a Virginia opossum. While opossum’s do tend to look like very large rats, they have a much more benign lifestyle, as this poster attempts to convey. Toronto is on the far northern edge of their current territory so we don’t tend to see too many of them but as the weather gets warmer that may start to change. That wouldn’t be a bad thing. They’re not destructive and as they can eat just about anything, they make excellent clean-up crews.
It makes me happy to think that someone cared enough about these creatures to go to the trouble of making and posting this information.
It’s nice to have friends. Or at least a good PR team. Walking in a residential neighbourhood near Yonge and Eglinton, my eye was drawn to this page attached to a street pole. It seeks to educate those in the neighbourhood about a new resident in the area – a Virginia opossum. While opossum’s do tend to look like very large rats, they have a much more benign lifestyle, as this poster attempts to convey. Toronto is on the far northern edge of their current territory so we don’t tend to see too many of them but as the weather gets warmer that may start to change. That wouldn’t be a bad thing. They’re not destructive and as they can eat just about anything, they make excellent clean-up crews.
It makes me happy to think that someone cared enough about these creatures to go to the trouble of making and posting this information.
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