the deer are running scared,
as rumours of a vampire squirrel appear to have some
foundation according to the Washington
Post, the tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis) was the
subject of a paper in the June 2014 issue of Taprobanica, a journal devoted to Asian flora and fauna and now one has been caught on video once again bringing it into the spotlight, of course it could all be
myth as the only reports are from local hunters who claim that
the squirrel drops from trees and disembowels the small
deer, but, murderous squirrels dropping from trees and
disemboweling deer? well think about this, for years, native hunters had been telling
tales of a mouse-deer, a species of primitive deer that have fangs, that hide under water and hold their breath when chased by
hunting dogs, how unlikely is that? but according to this BBC
item it has been found the deer does just that, so maybe the hunters are right and
the tufted ground squirrel really is the vampire squirrel from
hell!
squirrels are cute, but can also be deadly from cross
species viral infections which many people who keep them as pets or indeed pet
them in the wild may not know about, take
this report detailing how 3 German squirrel breeders
who meet on a regular basis, all died of the
same illness in the years 2011 and
2013, all three had
died of encephalitis,
which is inflammation in the brain, in particular type VSBV-1, it appears
that 2 of the men may have been scratched by a squirrel or two, but
in any event I will keep tree dwelling tree rats with good PR at a distance
from me from now on.
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