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American Squirrels Becoming British Citizens

2010-05-13T02:34:00.000-07:00

American gray squirrels have integrated themselves into British environments so much that British scientists are considering reclassifying them as British natives.

"ALIEN species such as American grey squirrels and Asian muntjac deer have become so well established in Britain that some should be reclassified as natives, a scientific report has suggested."

Read the rest of the article here :

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/living/article7086785.ece

"SQUIRREL WITH A SORE NUT... "

2010-04-27T10:32:00.001-07:00

"Named Crunchy by his carers, the four-week-old grey squirrel has been put on painkillers after tumbling from a branch when a tree surgeon sawed through his home."

Doesn't he look cute with his little bandage around his head?

Photo, quote, and information from
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/171098/Squirrel-with-a-sore-nut-

More Squirrel Pics!

2010-02-02T10:50:00.000-08:00

Squirrels on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

"Its Mocking Us"

2009-10-12T14:52:00.001-07:00

From "I can Haz Cheezeburger"
http://icanhascheezburger.com/

Large Campus Squirrels

2009-10-07T19:59:00.000-07:00

"Today a college sent me a questionnaire to fill out about my campus tour and what I thought of the school. I kid you not, the third question asks me, "Did our ridiculously large campus squirrels scare you at all?" If I wasn't seriously considering this school before, I am now. MLIA"

From My Life is Average
http://mylifeisaverage.com/story.php?id=832880

Squirrel ate my trashcan!

2009-09-29T01:01:00.000-07:00

Okay, when my boss came to work and saw this, he was pissed.

It was a brand new trash can.
I put it outside the day before. One single day, and it had a hole in it.

Normally, I'd have yelled at the squirrels. When I looked inside the trash can and saw loose french fries and a good coating of ketchup inside, I yelled at some of our employees instead. The trashcan is ONLY for bagged trash so my car doesn't get all smelly when I take the trash to the dumpster. This was the reason for getting a new trashcan in the first place - the old one was too disgusting, and didn't have a lid, so it collected water. (Its not like its the only trashcan we've got - there are 3 of them within 10 feet of the front door to the studio inside.)

The good news is that a little bit of tape patched the hole, and I haven't had to yell at anyone - human or squirrel alike - since then.

Campus Amenities include a dining hall, library, and squirrels. . . .

2009-09-13T12:54:00.000-07:00

A teacher in An Arbor, Michigan got attacked my a mother squirrel when she noticed some young squirrels out of their nest, being eyed by a bird, and she tried to put the squirrels back. They may be cute, but don't mess with squirrels!

(Complete with too-cute-for-the-story photograph)

Story from
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/04/24/Teacher-attacked-by-ungrateful-squirrel/UPI-41171240616437/

Man Vs. Squirrel

2009-09-05T00:48:00.000-07:00

"In an instinctive act of aggression, it occupied the territories known as the Jensens' attic. The Greendale family had no choice but to fight back.

For weeks now the battle has raged, with each side advancing and retreating. Dave Jensen, the king of the castle under siege, has developed a healthy respect for the gray squirrel across enemy lines."

I don't know how many times I've read one of these stories before.

I mean, squirrels are cute, until they start chewing through the wiring or insulation in your house.

Hopefully Mr. Jensen and his furry nemesis can come to a gentelmans agreement before someone gets hurt.

Read the full story here

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/41540672.html

Pete the Purple Squirrel

2009-08-27T00:42:00.000-07:00

Meet Pete, the Purple Squirrel.
He's been spotted outside of a school classroom in England, and he seems to really be purple all over - not covered in purple, but actually purple through and through.

Read the full article from the Daily Mail here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1099282/Pete-purple-squirrel-leaves-animal-lovers-baffled.html

"Squirrel eating from bird feeder, close up, slow motion"

2008-10-30T19:45:00.000-07:00

Squirrel eating from bird feeder, close up, slow motion from Loren Lewis on Vimeo.

Cute Baby Squirrel

2008-10-26T19:43:00.000-07:00

baby squirrels half polarizer lens and half just uv lens from rgtaa rgtaa on Vimeo.

"Recycling Jack-o-Lanterns" (Squirrel Style)

2008-10-20T19:40:00.000-07:00

Recycling Jack-o-Lanterns from stickerbandit on Vimeo.

"Pebbles's Friend BoBo"

2008-10-15T07:39:00.000-07:00

Pebbles's Friend BoBo from Stephen Chan on Vimeo.

"Look whats in my bluebird box"

2008-10-10T19:37:00.000-07:00

Look whats in my bluebird box from monarch on Vimeo.

"Kylie Kitty vs Squirrel"

2008-10-04T07:36:00.000-07:00

Kylie Kitty vs Squirrel from exatari on Vimeo.

"Squirrels work for Penuts"

2008-10-01T07:34:00.000-07:00

Squirrels work for peanuts from Chris Cosler on Vimeo.

"Squirrel"

2008-09-27T19:33:00.000-07:00

ÉCUREUIL / SQUIRREL from cayoyin on Vimeo.

Squirrel Remix

2008-09-21T19:31:00.000-07:00

squirrel remix in high def from rgtaa rgtaa on Vimeo.

"Squirrel planting corn seeds in my neighbor's yard"

2008-09-14T19:20:00.000-07:00

Squirrel planting corn seeds in my neighbor's yard from Soiboy on Vimeo.

Squirrel Delay

2008-09-07T19:40:00.000-07:00

Squirrel of honor

2008-07-15T06:23:00.000-07:00

more cat pictures

Ninja Squirrel

2008-07-06T02:28:00.000-07:00

more cat pictures

Squirrel in time-lapse video

2008-07-01T04:26:00.000-07:00

A beautiful time-lapse videoof a flower opening, with a squirrel making a cameo appearance in the background. Its not focused on the squirrel, but its a good video anyways.

Squirrel Brain

2008-06-27T15:20:00.000-07:00

Saw this at the Museum of Science, Boston.
The large brain is human; The small one is squirrel :P

Squirrel rummages in backpack

2008-06-23T01:10:00.000-07:00

A cute squirrel rummages through a backpack, but senses danger and runs off empty-handed before being chased away.

'Squirrel Facebook' shows three degrees of separation

2008-06-21T13:23:00.000-07:00

"Mercedes has got just one "friend" in Theodore Manno's version of Facebook. With nearly 20 friends, Spider is much more popular.

Manno, from the department of biological sciences at Auburn University in Alabama, spent three weeks perched in 4-metre-high observation towers watching 65 Columbian ground squirrels (Spermophilus columbianus), including Lava Lamp and Mercedes. By logging interactions between the squirrels he was able to draw up a plan of the squirrels’ social network.

"Friendly interactions" were defined as instances when the squirrels kissed, sniffed, played or groomed each other.

Manno then generated a computer model of the network and looked for sustained companionships – pairs of squirrels that interacted more frequently than would be expected from just random associations.
Closely knit

It turned out that the entire colony of 65 ground squirrels was connected, on average, by three degrees of separation – meaning any two squirrels could be connected by three intermediate animals.

Popular individuals of similar age and reproductive status tended to interact with each other, leaving a few loners on the sidelines of the colony. Six squirrels were not sexually mature, and all six were on the margins of the network."

Read the full article here :
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13495-squirrel-facebook-shows-three-degrees-of-separation.html

Pine martens 'key' to red squirrel defence

2008-06-17T01:02:00.000-07:00

"Pine martens may be the key to defending some of the last strongholds of the native red squirrel against invading American greys, according to new research."

"Scotland is host to about 75 per cent of the British population of 160,000 red squirrels, which are under attack from 2.5 million greys, some of which carry the squirrel pox virus which is fatal to the native reds.

"Even in Scotland, red squirrels have already been lost from an extensive area in the Central Belt and are now found primarily in the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Argyll, Perthshire, Grampian and the Highlands.""

The main hope against the American grey squirrel is the Pine Marten, a small type of weasel-like creature. In areas where pine martens have moved in, grey squirrel numbers have dropped. Grey squirrels and pine martens both feed on the forest floor. The theory goes that the pine martens chase away the grey squirrels. The red squirrels feast mainly up in the forest canopy, and are therefore less in competition with the pine martens then they are the grey squirrels. (The grey squirrels and the red squirrels share similar living spaces, while red squirrels and pine martens do not.)http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

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Cute Squirrel Photos!

2008-06-10T01:00:00.000-07:00

Okay, not exactly news, but these are some photos of squirrels living by the Charles River in Watertown, MA.

Squirrel evades pepper spray, 5 people treated in city

2008-06-02T12:20:00.000-07:00

The title and this quote say it all.

"“When the fire department went in and opened up all of the windows, the squirrel decided to leave,” Williams said. “I guess he figured his work there was done.”"

Read the article here:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080602/NEWS01/80602002

Frozen squirrels are dangerous

2008-05-26T08:38:00.000-07:00

Yes, that title is obvious. Frozen anything is usually very solid, and if used in a menacing way can do considerable dammage.

According to this Snopes article
http://www.snopes.com/critters/gnus/squirrel.asp,
frozen squirrels have been quite a source of mayhem in the past.

They've been used as decoys to be thrown at barking dogs while criminals steal hubcaps off parked cars. They've become weapons in domestic abuse cases, where they were used to knock someone unconcious. The little buggers have even passed away during the winter in trees, fallen down, and destroyed car windshields.

Who knew the little buggers could have such adventurous lives post-mortem?

Rescued Baby Squirrel

2008-05-12T23:16:00.001-07:00

Squirrel causes blackout in Hanover, Parsippany (NJ)

2008-01-10T09:57:00.000-08:00

"Hundreds of residents in Parsippany and Hanover lost power for nearly an hour Tuesday afternoon after a squirrel came into contact with a power line at a substation in Hanover.

No serious problems were reported, but the squirrel was electrocuted."

Read the rest here
http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080109/COMMUNITIES38/801090359/1344/NEWS14

Being Followed by a baby squirrel

2008-01-05T20:15:00.000-08:00

Video of a guy being followed by a baby squirrel.

http://www.maniacworld.com/being-followed-by-baby-squirrel.html