07/09/2022
Watch your backpack!!
This week’s Bad Squirrel is Fig Bar Felix 🐿
Felix is a known con artist, last spotted skulking around the trailhead of Riverside Walk, munching on a fig bar. Like many crime-squirrels around Temple of Sinawava, we suspect Fig Bar Felix began his crime streak as the youngest member of a prominent crime squirrel family, encouraged to take up the life by his parents and their accomplices. Witnesses who spotted Felix suspect that he must have pulled a clever con to acquire his fig bar feast, as he has never been known to board the shuttle and head to the store to buy them.
Once a squirrel, or any animal, learns to associate humans with food, they will change their natural behavior to beg for food from people. Wild animals become unhealthy from eating human food and can grow dependent on it as a food source. This leads to nuisance behavior and can eventually lead to the death of wildlife – whether from natural causes or due to increasingly aggressive behavior.
Don’t be an accomplice! Keep your distance from wildlife, and never feed them. Not only is it bad for them, but it’s also illegal to feed any wild animal in Zion.
