[brooksby]

One for hawkinspeter:

https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/splooting-squirrels-animals.html

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On hot days, squirrels keep cool by splooting (stretching out) on cool surfaces to reduce body heat. It is sometimes referred to as heat dumping. 

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[David9694]

You lot – honestly ??‍?

You lot – honestly ??‍?

[chrisonabike]

Seeing LOTS of foxes – could
Seeing LOTS of foxes – could there be a link?

[Mungecrundle]

I scan read that as
I scan read that as “onionised”

Mmmmm tasty.

[mdavidford]

I didn’t even know they were

I didn’t even know they were unionised.

[hawkinspeter]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Where have the squirrels gone?

They’re gathering their forces and waiting for the best time to strike

[David9694]

Where have the squirrels gone

Where have the squirrels gone? And many of the birds too? 

I’ve been a home worker since lockdown and in the last 2-3 years have seen squirrels where I don’t recall them before in our garden burying their nuts, my wife feeding and taming several different individuals, splooting (now I know that’s a thing) and I assume aggressing each other in the trees with this chuuu chuuu chuuur noise I didn’t know they made.  Now barely a one.

Similar on birds – the dawn chorus in May/June seemed epic. Pigeons and crow family still around, but not the numbers of finches we used to get, we had a brood of starlings who have gone, blackbirds seem to have gone, sparrows in their quarrelsome flocks are around but less frequent. Country walks often silent. 

 

[mdavidford]

Me too. I’ll probably avoid

Me too. I’ll probably avoid ‘heat dumping’ though – sounds more like what might happen if you fed them a particularly potent chilli

[hawkinspeter]

“Sploot” is a most cromulent

“Sploot” is a most cromulent word – I’ll try using it in as many conversations as possible

[chrisonabike]

I hope no-one takes this

I hope no-one takes this personally but I came here expecting to find the temperature at which squirrels spontaneously combust.

Fortunately for those of that persuasion there’s a wikihow:

https://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Squirrel

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