Since my images have gone walkies due to their popularity,
and until I take more photographs, I am using images from
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These images are from other people are doing work on this area (with whom I have no affiliation; it's a coincidence). Research centres from Havard University (USA) and The University of Texas (USA).
Specifically, the main culprits are Nikolas Gloy and Yasuhiro Endo, and "Squirrel Fishing" is their "new approach to rodent performance evaluation".
Basically, these people got fed up laying out peanuts for
squirrels then watching from a distance, and started tying
piece of strings to the food, looping them over tree branches,
and ...:
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A flying nut! Over here -- down a bit... |
There: I'm not letting go of this. | A r r r g h! |
| Some squirrels are even less fortunate | |
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| A rare picture of a Chippenham Squirrel. | |
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| (This is a stand-in, pending end of hibernation.) |