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I am squirrelius! And stop calling me Shirley!
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Pizza squizzle!
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“How you doin’?”
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Theyre not always cute. Eep!!
This past summer, the team observed 74 instances of squirrels actively hunting or consuming voles over a total of 18 days in the field. The most instances occurred during the first two weeks of July, when vole populations were also at their peak. Nearly half involved active hunting by squirrels, who usually pounced on a target vole and restrained it with its forepaws and teeth. Squirrels tended to kill the voles by biting the neck area and shaking their prey.
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They eat birds and eggs too. Even flying squirrels!
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Even flying squirrels!
Well sure, that’s how they incorporated into themselves the ability to fly.
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Well, can’t say I didn’t warn you!
“Never trust a squizzle”, that’s my motto.
Baillington Jalfrezi III esq.
Also:
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They’ll eat their dead, too. Every late May through June, squirrels run across the rural roads in California, especially in the Sierra Nevada foothills but also in the coastal range. Squirrel bodies are everywhere.
Some of the live ones will be chomping on the remains of their fallen brethren.
(I remember driving with my older biologist brother when I was 15 and I said, “Oh, look. That squirrel is trying to carry off its dead buddy.” Yeah. He set me straight.)
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TIL squirrels will eat meat. And their own dead. I’m disappointed, and will never look at them the same way again. I’m glad they don’t get close.
So much for our calling them Nutty, Nutkins, Nutcracker, etc. I guess ZombieZquirrel should be in there too.
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A lot of herbivores will eat meat when the opportunity comes up. Toucans will gulp baby birds and orangutans will actually eat little primates. I’ve seen a hare nibbling on roadkill. It felt like king Duncan had been murdered and the natural order upset, but really it’s just enjoying a protein supplement.
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