Give me a break.
I live in harmony near lots of wild things, including some foxes. They stay on the outside of my house and I stay on the inside. It's not "perfect" but it works pretty well.
Not everything is perfect. I am not "kill nothing." But I try very hard to live well with nature by trying to understand it.
And its good for all of us.
Obviously the landscaping was designed to look pretty and win awards, not to host actual wildlife
(This is without any positive or negative value judgement, just an observation that we don't have to reach for "it needs to look pretty" to explain why having foxes on the roof isn't ideal.)
Now the 'secret garden' refuge of stressed MIT students, office workers, and locals... has shrunk, and been re-landscaped, as a kinda creepy Google-style nano-campus party roof deck, which feels like you're trespassing, and you're the view for their windows and the new surveillance cameras.
The fox spirits know your selfish transgressions.
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2012/05/22/despite-urging-new-b...
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2012/07/19/public-loses-40-of-r...
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2013/09/12/one-year-later-agenc...
https://www.cambridgeday.com/2015/06/23/ex-cra-official-pays...
I assume, based on no evidence that foxes keep down the rat population. I see far more foxes then rats. Also they cause less problems then rats so i tolerate them.
Unlike say dogs off leashes that will absolutely harass people while owner stands there looking bewildered
On the other hand I think it is pretty cool to have foxes on the roof.
They are scavengers (int al). They help keep the place cleaner in return for a small amount of crap and some extra disease vectors.
What I'd really like to hear is that a bunch of clever kids at Google realise that a city has an ecology all of its own and that they need to fit into it and not the other way around. If they have managed to attract foxes then make the best of it.
I wonder if there are there any Plane trees on it?
more_corn•4h ago