Hard drinking rodents

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This plastic liquor bottle was found at the base of an oak tree, in a staff-only section of the zoo, a good distance from the perimeter fence. Sometimes I'll find bottles near the fence--some drinker in the park decides to discard their container up and over. This one wasn't in throwing distance. My first thought was that some coworker was drinking bourbon on the clock; oh dear.


Then when I picked the bottle up, I noticed the cap had these markings on it. The cap was screwed on tightly, so some creature with very strong and sharp incisors had to chew through it to make this hole. It seems that this winter got to the wildlife as well as to the human population.