New regular topic: Squirrel news

[Diver]

Welcome to the Squirrel Defamation League. Our mission is to rid the world of all squirrels. The only good squirrel is a dead squirrel.

http://www.deadsquirrel.com/

[shoes]

www.karlpilkington.com

[AtW]

Do you have a very round head atw?

Are you a nazi anthropologist?

[shoes]

Squirrel news is much more interesting.

Do you have a very round head atw?

[Clippy]

I was talking about SKA, not squirrel news...

So was shoes!

[AtW]

Don't be ridiculous.

I was talking about SKA, not squirrel news...

[shoes]

it will be of actual interest to people

Don't be ridiculous.

[AtW]

Lets see how you fare in the next 6 months when you are starving on the streets of Brum.

Do you want to make a bet that I will? I doubt so. New index is shaping out very well and it will be of actual interest to people

[DimPrawn]

That's sick Tony, in spetznas they eat worms, not cute fluffy squirrels

Lets see how you fare in the next 6 months when you are starving on the streets of Brum.

[AtW]

That's sick Tony, in spetznas they eat worms, not cute fluffy squirrels

[BoredBloke]

I used to work with a guy who used to be in the Marines. Once he was on an excercise where they had eaten nothing for about 3 days and he was really hungry. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted a squirrel. He said it was kind on instinctive as he stamped on it and killed it. He skinned it and ate it. He said it was quite nice although there isn't much meat on them.

[AtW]

How many months before you are flat broke and out on the streets?

You have such a negative viewpoint my fishy friend

[DimPrawn]

How many months before you are flat broke and out on the streets?

Your SKA is 3 yrs in the making and all I can see is posts about squirrels and new emoticons on you own forums.

Oh Dear.

[AtW]

Snakey smells help squirrels stay safe
Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:02am EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's scary being a little, tasty squirrel, but some species of the rodents have come up with an intimidating camouflage -- snake smells.

California ground squirrels and rock squirrels chew up rattlesnake skin and smear it on their fur to mask their scent, a team at the University of California Davis reported.

"They're turning the tables on the snake," Donald Owings, a professor of psychology who helped lead the research, said in a statement.

Barbara Clucas, a graduate student in animal behavior, watched ground squirrels and rock squirrels chewing up pieces of skin shed by snakes and then licking their fur.

The scent probably helps to mask the squirrel's own scent, especially when the animals are asleep in their burrows, they wrote in the journal Animal Behavior.

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Very clever squirrels

Photo of a cute squirrel here.