Long Island Invaded By Invisible Beaver
Reports are streaming in that a beaver has not been seen on Long Island. We can't make this stuff up folks.
Word that a lone beaver set up housekeeping in Northwest Woods has East Hampton Town abuzz about the provenance of the dam-building beast, whose ancestors are thought to have vanished from Long Island hundreds of years ago.
Garbo-like, the reclusive rodent has yet to be actually seen. But traces of beaver bustle are evident at Scoy Pond: toppled, tooth-marked trees, a dam, even a stout lodge sitting at a stately remove in the pond…..
……Skeptics note Long Islanders' propensity for acquiring, and then abandoning, exotic animals. A prairie dog native to the Plains states was found in a sandy burrow on Fire Island four years ago.
But some locals are firmly convinced that the beaver is real.
"There have been no sightings, but the evidence is irrefutable," said East Hampton Town Supervisor Bill McGintee. "We've very pleased. We've got an abundance of wild turkeys, beavers and disoriented porpoises."
If the Animal Uprising™ has indeed perfected the cloak of invisibility then they are far ahead of human scientists.
By Rightmom, Monday, 22 January , 2007 @ 2:32 pm
I just have to thank you for making me laugh every time I see one of your stories on the animal uprising. It really does make my day.
By Gaius, Monday, 22 January , 2007 @ 2:35 pm
Thanks.