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Forget Nuts – California Squirrels Are Hunting for Meat!
Scitech Daily ^ | December 18, 2001 | University of California - Davis

Posted on 12/18/2024 5:45:57 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 12/18/2024 5:45:57 AM PST by Red Badger
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Are the voles simply a food source, or are the squirrels regarding them as competitors for the seeds and nuts, clearing them out like a rival gang?


2 posted on 12/18/2024 5:48:25 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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They eat them. Pass the salt..................


3 posted on 12/18/2024 5:50:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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4 posted on 12/18/2024 5:52:33 AM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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They always have a taste for protein. Sit near a ground squirrel colony with a scoped rifle and smack a couple of them. Right away their buddies will come out to snack on the remains.


5 posted on 12/18/2024 5:57:56 AM PST by lurk (u)
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Even deer have been observed eating meat from carcasses..........


6 posted on 12/18/2024 5:58:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Our neighborhood squirrels and crows will eat almost anything except broccoli. (On the one subject of broccoli it seems that George Bush was right….)


7 posted on 12/18/2024 5:58:55 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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8 posted on 12/18/2024 5:59:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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“Forget Nuts – California Squirrels Are Hunting for Meat!”

If they want to keep access to meat, the Squirrels need to stop voting for Democrats as I doubt it will even be available in California 10 years from now, the way that state is circling the drain in the name of ‘climate change’.


9 posted on 12/18/2024 6:00:47 AM PST by BobL
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California Vole! It’s not nuts! Its what’s for Dinner!


10 posted on 12/18/2024 6:02:05 AM PST by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other, Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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Many animals thought to be non-meat-eating will gladly eat a bit of meat. I’ve seen quail fighting over little balls of ground beef left for the cactus wrens. And the various ground squirrels will gladly gorge on caterpillars in the spring, holding them, squirming, in their front paws and nibbling their way down.


11 posted on 12/18/2024 6:07:44 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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Word has gotten out to the squirrel community to up their protein intake to get stronger so they can fight back when confronted by the Feds and not end up like Peanut.


12 posted on 12/18/2024 6:09:27 AM PST by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That’s so cute...)
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To: lurk

I believe coyotes will also eat their brothers.


13 posted on 12/18/2024 6:10:40 AM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Red Badger

Like most Californians, squirrels are nuts.

Eat baby birds all the time.


14 posted on 12/18/2024 6:12:52 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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Squirrels = Tree rats


15 posted on 12/18/2024 6:13:54 AM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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Thats fake...

Canadian squirrels eat poutine.


16 posted on 12/18/2024 6:19:27 AM PST by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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Bummer Man, I was having a good morning until your post brought back the image of a decapitated squirrel who’s big mistake was trusting people. Only trust a moose I say. Also there was a Racoon friend who was whacked as well. NY, what a screwed up place.


17 posted on 12/18/2024 6:22:05 AM PST by Waverunner
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To: null and void

Saw that on a golf course in Clearwater, FL. Was golfing with a friend when we happened to see a squirrel above a robin in a tree. The next thing we saw was the squirrel pounced and had the robin in its mouth as it scurried away....


18 posted on 12/18/2024 6:26:11 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Red Badger

Could have done without pictures.


19 posted on 12/18/2024 6:27:40 AM PST by x
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Squirrels eat anything, including each other.


20 posted on 12/18/2024 6:27:45 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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