A Closer Look at the Kestrels, Hedgehogs and Other Wild Animals That Inhabit Rome
From SmithsonianMag.org:
Long ago, the story goes, a king kidnapped two sons of a god, stuffed them in a basket and set them afloat on Italy’s Tiber River. A female wolf rescued the brothers and nursed them as though they were her own pups. A woodpecker brought them food. Nourished by these wild creatures, Romulus and Remus went on to overthrow the king and found Rome—a city whose mythological roots and documented history are both entangled with the animals who have crept, slithered, scurried and flown among its pillars and palaces for thousands of years.
