Re: The next horror movie craze, Carnivorous Squirrels.

On 1/2/2025 4:28 AM, jillery wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 10:10:38 -0800, erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 1/1/25 9:41 AM, RonO wrote:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241218132149.htm
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A ground squirrel with cheeks stuffed with nuts, seeds or grains, is a
common sight. But a new study provides the first evidence that
California ground squirrels also hunt, kill and eat voles. The study,
led by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and University of
California, Davis, is the first to chronicle widespread carnivorous
behavior among squirrels.
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These ground squirrels are not much bigger than a vole.  Voles might be
larger compared to a ground squirrel than than a rabbit compared to lynx.
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It probably should be noted that carnivora is derived from hooved
animals.  I recall a science article noting that cattle in India were
opportunistic carnivores even though they were ruminants (some were
hunting birds at night when the birds couldn't see them).
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Ron Okimoto
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Carnivorous bunnies have already appeared via Monty Python.

  Point of order: there's no evidence the bunny ate what he killed.

Not only that, but examination of the evidence would conclude that the killer was a stuffed prop bunny.
Ron Okimoto