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WTF, The Florida Fish and Wildlife can't tell the difference between a monkey and a squirrel?

Anyway, as they say, all cats are gray at night.

Related story: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925422/posts

Recent Squirrely business in Florida: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925436/posts

1 posted on 11/17/2007 10:56:42 AM PST by BGHater
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To: BGHater

Guess I better leave my .22 home and bring a .30 cal next time I go squirrel hunting in Baker Co.


2 posted on 11/17/2007 11:03:06 AM PST by Atchafalaya
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To: BGHater

Fox Squirrel

3 posted on 11/17/2007 11:03:12 AM PST by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: BGHater
In India, there is a species of squirrels, the Giant Malabar squirrel. It's larger than a domestic cat, and often with a red coat of fur. Perhaps someone let one of these loose there?


5 posted on 11/17/2007 11:05:18 AM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: BGHater

The picture I saw didn’t look like any squirrel I’ve ever seen and I see plenty of them.


6 posted on 11/17/2007 11:07:38 AM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: BGHater
LOL!...Donuts?
....its a wonder, they didn't attract any police (w/ apologies to :).
7 posted on 11/17/2007 11:09:54 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
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To: BGHater

Tourist Squirrel

8 posted on 11/17/2007 11:15:38 AM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: BGHater

European Red Squirrel

9 posted on 11/17/2007 11:34:13 AM PST by FocusNexus
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The Florida Times-Union reports the red-orange animals can grow to be about two feet tall and can climb in trees.

Has anyone ever actually seen a Fox squirrel that has obtained a 2 foot size? I realize they get slightly bigger than the grey squirrels we have in CA but that sounds just a tad on the large size from all the pictures I have seen of them.

Also I love the intelligent way this reporter lets us know squirrels can climb in trees. Who the he** doesn't know squirrels can climb trees?

11 posted on 11/17/2007 11:42:09 AM PST by calex59
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To: BGHater

Make a good meal!


13 posted on 11/17/2007 11:53:56 AM PST by Vicki (Washington State where anyone can vote .... illegals, non-residents, dead people, dogs, felons)
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To: Fudd Fan

Squirrel Ping
Start at top, several photos


14 posted on 11/17/2007 12:03:37 PM PST by SoCalPol (Duncan Hunter '08 Tough on WOT & Illegals)
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Squirrels do get rather large. I can see how a squirrel could be mistaken for an orangutan.


15 posted on 11/17/2007 12:06:57 PM PST by Disambiguator (Political Correctness is criminal insanity writ large.)
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Officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission laid doughnuts at a base of a tree

Sounds like they haven't ruled out a rogue off-duty cop...

16 posted on 11/17/2007 12:15:57 PM PST by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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I can't believe no one posted a link to the home of the "The Official Home Page of the Squirrel Defamation League".

All Squirrels Must Die!

Disclaimer: I have no connection, except as an amused reader, with the above web page.

Peet
18 posted on 11/17/2007 1:46:44 PM PST by Peet (Insert clever phrase here.)
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I used to hunt fox squirrels in east Texas. They are fairly large, and are not bad eating. I had my own secret place that teemed with them, morning dove, bobwhites and swamp rabbits (unfortunately it also teemed with copperheads and cottonmouths).


19 posted on 11/17/2007 1:50:55 PM PST by VR-21
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Squirrel Monkey:


26 posted on 11/17/2007 2:12:38 PM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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Squirrelzilla
28 posted on 11/17/2007 2:14:33 PM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Not a ping, and a bit Squirrelly!
30 posted on 11/17/2007 2:15:27 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: BGHater; Slings and Arrows
Fox squirrel (Sciurus niger)
Body: 13" Tail: 11"
Fox squirrels are large with variable reddish-brown to pale gray backs and red to yellow-orange underparts. They have broad tails, coarse, grizzled fur and short ears. Fox squirrels can be found in habitats with fewer trees than most other tree squirrels. They were introduced into Washington from the southeastern United States and occur in urban and rural environments in several parts of the state.
Fox Squirrel
Fox Squirrel

37 posted on 11/17/2007 2:56:05 PM PST by Lady Jag (Fall seven times, stand up eight)
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To: BGHater

They’re terrible eatin’ too.


44 posted on 11/17/2007 3:33:50 PM PST by dljordan
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To: BGHater
That must be one big honkin' squirrel....LOL


54 posted on 11/18/2007 6:36:50 PM PST by Viking2002 (Waterboarding the Left every chance I get.)
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