Chocoholic squirrel steals treats from shop
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I bet it's because of the creamy hazelnut blended with the chocolate
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070802/od_nm/squirrel_chocolate_dc;_ylt=AsGxt.gIccwQ6xVijB41UIADW7oF
Thu Aug 2, 10:44 AM ET
HELSINKI (Reuters) - A Finnish squirrel with a sweet tooth heads to a Finnish grocery shop at least twice a day to steal "Kinder Surprise" chocolate-shelled eggs.
"I named it the Kinder-squirrel, after the treats. It always goes after them, other sweets do not seem to interest it as much," the manager of the store in Jyvaskyla, central Finland, told Reuters.
The confectionary, which is intended for children, has a toy inside.
"It removes the foil carefully, eats the chocolate and leaves the store with the toy," Irene Lindroos said.
Unfortunately, the bushy-tailed thief does not clean up after itself, but leaves the wrappers behind, she added.
Squirrels have a well deserved reputation for being clever and adaptable animals. Many a home owner has seen the small rodents raiding their supposedly "squirrel-proof" bird feeders. -
so cute!
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there is a squirrel-proof one.. when a squirrel (heavier than a bird) hangs on the feeder, the feeder starts to spin and the squirrel is spun off
besides, squirrels are vicious creatures
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mayb the dog was working in de kinder surprise factory...they tot is chocolate dog den go attack. poor dog
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maybe they should make it to kill so that less dogs get killed, poor dogsOriginally posted by the Bear:there is a squirrel-proof one.. when a squirrel (heavier than a bird) hangs on the feeder, the feeder starts to spin and the squirrel is spun off
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maybe the squirrels should be trained to attack sociopaths
anyway, clicky here => Vid of Squirrel eating a bird -
Not clicking!!!!!Originally posted by the Bear:maybe the squirrels should be trained to attack sociopaths
anyway, clicky here => Vid of Squirrel eating a bird -
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ACCKKK!!!!
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hmmz training squirrels to attack pple, sounds like what sociopath might doOriginally posted by the Bear:maybe the squirrels should be trained to attack sociopaths
anyway, clicky here => Vid of Squirrel eating a bird
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Need cute pictures!!!
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well, you wanted to kill the squirrels with the bird feederOriginally posted by hisoka:hmmz training squirrels to attack pple, sounds like what sociopath might do
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whats the bottle of white stuff?
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well, you could continue inventing new feeders to keep them off or kill them if they try. by killing them, they will have less experience and have that much lesser chances of breaking the system.Originally posted by the Bear:well, you wanted to kill the squirrels with the bird feeder -
sometimes, i wonder... hisk would make a great example of how Judge Death in the Judge Dredd world came to being...
"All crime is committed by the living, therefore, life is a crime and the sentence is death" -
thats more christian isn't it? all ple are born with sin and therefore all living are sinners? only diff is instead of dying one needs to embraceOriginally posted by the Bear:sometimes, i wonder... hisk would make a great example of how Judge Death in the Judge Dredd world came to being...
"All crime is committed by the living, therefore, life is a crime and the sentence is death" -
i doubt you will ever understand why you are a sociopath
are you sure you are not infected by some squirrel virii? -
it's better to steal from shop than biting wire coating, causing blackouts and electrocution...
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i think this is one of the squirrels that worked in Willy Wonka's factory
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Oh i nv knew squirrels loved chocs...
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It's the nuts in the chocolates that attracted them.Originally posted by YA.YA:Oh i nv knew squirrels loved chocs... -
I thought Kinder Surprise was just milk chocolate?
Jyvaskylä...nice university town and great rally racing.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070814/ap_on_sc/hot_tail
Calif. squirrels heat tails for defense
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer
Tue Aug 14, 5:18 PM ET
WASHINGTON - California ground squirrels have learned to intimidate rattlesnakes by heating their tails and shaking them aggressively.
Because the snakes, which are ambush hunters, can sense infrared radiation from heat, the warming makes the tails more conspicuous to them — signaling that they have been discovered and that the squirrels may come and harass them, explained Aaron Rundus, lead author of a study in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The tail "flagging" places the snakes on the defensive, he said.
Adult squirrels are not the snakes' prey, Rundus said in a telephone interview. The adults have a protein in their blood that allows them to survive the snake venom, and they have been known to attack and injure snakes, biting and kicking gravel at them.
Rather, the snakes are looking for immature squirrels, which they can kill and eat, said Rundus, who did the research while at the Animal Behavior Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis.
Researchers are not sure just how the squirrels cause their tails to heat up, but they think it may be by shunting warm blood from the body core into the tail.
"It's such a new discovery that it leaves a lot of questions," he said.
But apparently it isn't just a reflex, because they only do it with rattlesnakes.
Confronted by gopher snakes, which can't sense heat, the squirrels wave their tails vigorously, but don't bother to heat them up.
So how did they discover that the squirrels heat their tails?
The researchers were studying how squirrels reacted to various predators and noticed that with rattlesnakes they waved their tails even more in dark conditions than in the light.
That prompted the researchers to view the encounters using an infrared camera, and they discovered the squirrels' tails were much warmer than normal when dealing with rattlesnakes.
Learning more about these complex communication methods among animals may help improve understanding of how complex human communications have evolved, Rundus said.
He said it serves as a reminder that to understand more about animal life, we need to pay close attention to how animals act. "There is potentially a lot going on out there that we're not aware of," he said.
