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'Vampire' Squirrel Has World's Fluffiest Tail
sciencehabit (1205606) writes Few scientists have ever seen the rare tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis), which hides in the hilly forests of Borneo, but it is an odd beast. It's twice the size of most tree squirrels, and it reputedly has a taste for blood. Now, motion-controlled cameras have revealed another curious fact. The 35-centimeter-long rodent has the bushiest tail of any mammal compared with its body size.
Oh yeah, just let that critter suck ya dry.
I for one welcome our new Vampire Squirrel overlords.
Biology is for girls and according to Karl Popper, who is the God of capitalsm alongside the idiot saint Anne Raynd, it is not even a science, just a hobby.
Plus, can you prove that these are squirrels and not toads? I think they are arboreal toads, not that I'm into biology or knitting or any other stupid Italian girl stuff.
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There you have it. Your taxpayer dollars are going to considering the fluffiness of squirrel tails. Not only is running a museum like the Smithsonian an enumerated power of the federal government under the Constitution, but these scientists aren't even working on things that will make Americans' lives better.
How 'bout this: if you statists are so rah-rah for this navel-gazing, why don't you pay for it yourself instead of having the federal government put a gun to the heads of your fellow Americans?
Gonads and Strife https://www.youtube.com/watch?... with this new Squampire
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
The George Walker Bushiest tail compared with his body size has president Obama. I mean, there is not much that could safely be categorized as anything else.
Whats next, articles about bird watching? Are we all over 70 already?
I guess we have to discuss any way we can of getting a little tail.
Its not like it comes easy for us.
Hmm, let me guess...
News for nutters, stuff that squeaks?
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Fulffffffffffffffffffffffffffeh!
[x] Touch fluffy tail
Local legends suggest that Rheithrosciurus, which is thought to mostly eat giant acorns, can be savage. Hunters say that the squirrels will perch on low branches, jump onto a deer, gash its jugular vein, and disembowel the carcass. "It sounds pretty fantastical," says a skeptical Roland Kays, a zoologist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. "Even more than its fluffy tail."
This sounds far too awesome to be fact checked.
I stole this Sig
Squirrel with huge, fluffy tail and a taste for blood?
"It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!"
In a forest in Borneo, a small group encounters a surprisingly large squirrel with an exceedingly bushy tail. It is grooming itself. 1: "Its soooo cute." 2: "Hey look... Another one." 3: Looking tense, he firmly grasps 2's shoulder, and in a muted growl, "Look in the trees." The camera pans up and around showing what could be thousands of squirrels perched on branches in and around the small group. The squirrels stare at the group motionlessly. The camera starts to slowly back up and away from the scene, and just as the squirrels become difficult to individually distinguish, they descend in brown furry waves upon the hapless group, whose screams scare up a number of birds from a distance tree.
Oh yeah, finally some real science.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
So, we're doomed right? No aliens, no nukes, no super volcanoes, no religious apocalypses, no zombies, this will be the end of us.
Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist...
He's got huge, sharp... er... He can leap about. Look at the bones!
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
...be sure to bring the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
'nuff said.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
...they put every other ingredient in shampoo claiming it helps with body and volume (don't see how those are different), so why not add blood? Or even "vampire squirrel blood"?
New series on the WB coming to you this fall:
Fluffy the Vampire Squirrel Hunter.
Join Fluffy and her team of misfits battle the increasing population of Vampire Squirrels.
Ya, sorry, I know it's stupid, I'm out of weed currently.
Be seeing you...
Kinda like how the Aussies have the threat of dingos. Can't wait for the SyFy adaption called "Squirrelgeddon" that will hopefully not include sparkly, drama queen squirrels... or maybe that would be good for comedy spoof.
for the San Acitos Dirt Shrew.
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In photography, "pan" means to turn left and right. For up and down you want "tilt." Thus a camera cannot "pan up."
Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara
About the size of a medium dog, and does ok as pets. Also used in Enpanadas as the Catolic Church says they are like fish.