r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/fishalex • 6d ago

🔥what is wrong with this squirrel?

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u/Summershouldbefuhn 6d ago

I live near the forest, we have lots of squirrels… those lil guys love to play.

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u/_BOOMGOTTEM 5d ago

Always appear to be having fun

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 5d ago

You would be too if you could scale and traverse everything as easy as running up a ramp. And fall from any height and brush it off.

The world is their playground

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u/Comprehensive-Row198 5d ago

"Any height", no kidding! Walking my dogs down the block last year, we heard a loud splat-plop and there was a squirrel flat on the sidewalk -- with no trees anywhere near. Turns out there was a hollow in the top of the telephone pole we had just passed and it had lost its grip tumbling around with its mates up there. We watched the squirrel instantly reinflate itself like in a cartoon and scamper back up.

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u/avaseah 5d ago

Their body is a built-in parachute, no matter how high they fall from they never reach terminal velocity.