But in fact, we're now finding that these early immigrants were just the start of a more general movement of animals into cities, and of adaptation by these animals to city life.
Aborigines managed to convey the idea of the settlers' clothing by simply painting the Europeans without an hands, indicating the habit of standing with their hands in their pockets!
Curiously enough, there are lots of families in Chile that also eat lentils and say goodbye to the year with the 12 grapes; traditions that have been passed on by the Italian and Spanish immigrants who travelled there.
As the years passed, fewer people were moving to America for a better job. Most were coming now for any job at all. Work was hard to find in any of the cities in Europe.
In order to preserve their peculiar lifestyle, they began to immigrate to the British colonies in North America in about 1720 (before Canada and the United States were formed as independent countries).
The idea was to check whether the animals would rather build a nest in the cooler cage or move to the warmer one, possibly tugging nesting material along with them strand by strand.