"It's probably for the good of the whole squirrel community," he says. "I mean, sure, I've got thumbs and I can work a can-opener or go to a drive-through, which they can't, but those are recent inventions. In a real hunter-gatherer agrarian kind of life, I'd probably wind up eating the food supply for the whole forest, during the winter. All the stashes of nuts, gone. What would everybody else eat?"