Squirrels Are Displaying 'Widespread Carnivorous Behavior' for the First Time in a California Park, New Study Finds | Smithsonian

>the weak should fear the strong

It's only a matter of time before they develop a taste for human flesh

California is Heck

I can't walk 5 feet without almost tripping over one who's so impudent that they just chill out on the sidewalk.

"This was shocking," study lead author Jennifer E. Smith, a professor of biology at the University of State said.

Wow. The most shocking thing since Jane Goodall in the 1960s discovered that chimpanzees are predators. Un-fricking-precedented that we find out another mammal eats meat.

Sometimes with a stalking motion and a pounce, it would tackle the vole, restrain it with its forepaws, bite the vole's neck and remove its head.

@Rad_juju I would ask you but you apparently have never seen any animal outdoors. There aren't any blankets or colorful toys out on the street where real gangsta-butt neighbors are making their moves late at night when the only lights you see are flashing from police cars. So we're going to rely on my experience:

This indicates to me that they ain't just making this up as they go along. This is a fairly complicated set of maneuvers. You see cats practicing this, terriers with something similar where they shake them to death. So squirrels have killer DNA?

"In the face of human insults such as climate change and drought, these animals are resilient and have the potential to adapt to live in a changing world," Smith adds.

What a fricking r-slur. Our cats can't even catch them. Have these r-slurs ever... ohhhhhhh no nobody can have outdoor pets anymore because they got banned by Greenpeace or Princess Diana or something so our "science" is done by morons raised by tards who intentionally made their children ignorant of the behavior of small mammals.

Rodent on rodent violence

Oh good

No longer looking for a nut, but a piece of meat

Never heard of ground squirrels, had to look them up. Apparently they're known to be omnivores, so I don't know why these 'scientists' are clutching their pearls about "oh my gosh, the cute furry animals hunt and kill other small animals!"

Unless this is the state of science in California, and you get to be a zoologist based on "I just love Disney movies with the cute talking animals", which wouldn't surprise me.

This b-word has been a squirrel specialist for twelve years but never saw anything like this? And yet a group of undegrads on their first Big Boy Unsupervised Field Trip got video of such behaviour? Somebody has been taking money and not doing their job for twelve years!

shock news, omnivores eat flesh

A lot of things happen in California parks that would shock these people.

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