"Lamont, Lamont, It's the BIG one!! I'm comin' to ya' Elizabeth!"

OK, OK, not that Redd Fox, the little furry ones.


Many neighborhoods have so few remaining houses that adjoining lots resemble small prairies and woodlands, and freeways and old railroad connections linking the inner city to less populated areas now serve as routes for wildlife.

“As we move out, wildlife moves in,” said Matthew Walter, a fox researcher at Antioch University’s New England campus in New Hampshire. “Nature heals the cuts that we’ve made. As long as they can survive there, and as long as they can raise young and if the hunting is good, they will stay there indefinitely.”

Just over 900,000 people live within Detroit’s 139 square miles, compared with more than 1.8 million who called the city home in 1950. More are expected to flee.
http://freep.com/article/20090719/NEWS01/90719007/