Even Squirrels Kill Squirrels; Why Shouldn’t We?

SquirrelSniper (SS) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:16:14 +0000

This is part of a study done on infanticide within a population of California Ground Squirrels. The study tosses out some hypothesis on why some California ground squirrels kill and eat young animals within their own species. It looks like most of the murders were female with a litter, and in most cases they ate the young they killed. The young squirrels they killed weren’t their own, so the strategy looks like it is twofold; Kill other female’s offspring to feed their own and to cut down on competition from other squirrel’s offspring so their’s have a better chance of survival.

I knew there was a reason I liked squirrel hunting; they’re creepy cannibals and deserve to die!

Cannibalistic Ground Squirrels (Or Chumming For Squirrels)

SquirrelSniper (SS) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:58:24 +0000

I forgot to mention something really freaky and gross about freaking Sage Rats. When you shoot them, they gather around and start eating their freshly slaughtered kin, or they drag them down into their burrows for a snack at a later date. Eeeewwww!

The fact that they eat each other after you shoot them makes shooting more of them easier; both psychologically and shootilogically. (whoohoo, I just made up a new word.)

Shootilogically, if you pop a squirrel away from a hole, and “The Others” come to feed, it makes it easy to start piling up squirrel bodies in one spot. Then, as more bodies start piling up, more of “The Others” start showing up to feed, thereby causing a squirrel chain reaction of death. As a matter of fact, once you’ve shot a squirrel out in the open, you’ve become a squirrel chummer. (Whoohoo, another linguistic creation by SquirrelSniper.)

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Even Squirrels Kill Squirrels; Why Shouldn’t We?

Cannibalistic Ground Squirrels (Or Chumming For Squirrels)