bouncy things

[whispercricket]

The squirrels are out in force today - it must be the sun, because I think the temperature's still below freezing. One bounced blithely across the street in front of my car, and I cheered that it would make it all the way across before anyone else came along (it did :) ).

Squirrels here still seem weird to me - they're more like squirmonks than true squirrels. Squirrels where I grew up are much larger, fatter (although that's possibly because my mother feeds them), and lighter brown in color. Squirrels here are darker, smaller, and proportionally perkier. Anyway, they're all cute.

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[meranthi.livejournal.com]

Oh, we have squirrels like that at home. Smaller than any of the others and black, they chase off anything that might get near "their" territory. Well, except humans. But this includes other larger squirrels, chipmonks, birds, cats...

[frozencapybara.livejournal.com]

Looking at the squirrel index - I think the freaky goth squirrels were Abert squirrels, or at least the European equivalent thereof. And yes, they live in colorado. Info and picture here.

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

I think they're cute, but Also know as the most handsome rodent in all of North America??? Though, we don't have capybaras...