Squirrels are becoming carnivores....
>>5110324>becoming
>>5110324There's no such thing as a carnivore. All "carnivores" eat plants.
>>5110326They are now actively hunting mice.
>>5110324That's...nuts!
>>5110340They always did. It's just been observed>things dont exist unless we observe themYou must have no object permanence
>>5110324Squirrels have always been opportunistic omnivores. They just prefer nuts and seeds because they store well. They have been observed eating bugs, lizards, snakes, baby birds, eggs, and other small mammals.
>>5110329And all "herbivores" eat meat.
>>5110324This is only new in ground squirrels and even then it was temporary because of their apparent abundance after the wildfires. Basically the mice were eating the ground squirrels staple foods so the ground squirrels ate them.
>>5111033No they don't. That's just reddit tier propaganda that Eglin Air Force Base has spread to prop up the failing cattle rancher and hunting lobbies. >B-but the horse video! The deer video! Yes, we've all seen them retard.
>>5110324And carnivores are becoming herbivores...
>>5110545Scientists had been observing the squirells for 12 years mongoloid. You cannot understand a trend
>>5111183So presume the squirells were just oppurtunistically stalking, pouncing decapitating voles? But your peasant brained Qtard conspiracy does sound more plausible
>>5110329>>5111033Meh the terms are close enough. Yes a deer will eat baby birds and rodents. It still derives 99% of its calories from plants.The actual issue is that very few animals would fall into either bucket, even with the soft definition. Most animals ate opportunist omnivores and will readily eat any calorically dense good item they can get in their mouths. The one that surprised me was fish, especially freshwater fish. They will happily eat vegetables.
>>5110324they always have been. they are just bushy tailed rats
>>5110324Is this happening worldwide?
>>5111860Yes, the squivemind sent out a new command prerogative: go on a caveman diet, get swole.
>>5112079Can't squirrels use tools like crows too?
>>5111480>“This was shocking,” said lead author Jennifer E. Smith, an associate professor of biology at UW-Eau Claire who leads the long-term ground squirrels project with Sonja Wild of UC Davis. “We had never seen this behavior before. Squirrels are one of the most familiar animals to people. We see them right outside our windows; we interact with them regularly. Yet here’s this never-before-encountered-in-science behavior that sheds light on the fact that there’s so much more to learn about the natural history of the world around us.”>Wild has observed hundreds of squirrels in nature and yet, even for her, when the undergraduate students came in from field work and told her what they had witnessed, she said, “No, I’m not sure what you’re referring to.” Then she watched the video. >“I could barely believe my eyes,” said Wild, a postdoctoral research fellow in the UC Davis Environmental Science and Policy department. “From then, we saw that behavior almost every day. Once we started looking, we saw it everywhere.”Nope, tardbaby, it wasn't observed because they weren't looking. Once they started looking for this behavior, they saw it everywhere. Meaning it's ordinary for these squirrels but it was just never noticed.
