'Vampire' Squirrel Has World's Fluffiest Tail 54
sciencehabit (1205606) writes Few scientists have ever seen the rare tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis), which hides in the hilly forests of Borneo, but it is an odd beast. It's twice the size of most tree squirrels, and it reputedly has a taste for blood. Now, motion-controlled cameras have revealed another curious fact. The 35-centimeter-long rodent has the bushiest tail of any mammal compared with its body size.
Vampire Squirrel Overlords (Score:5, Funny)
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they're so FLUFFY!
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Given that their automated camera happened to snap pictures of an adorable-looking but viscious killer squirrel, did it also happen to also snap a picture an evil jester, a whiny prince, or at least someone eating a fish cream sandwich?
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Everyone knows that the jungle is not natural habitat of evil jesters.
Duh.
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Re: Vampire Squirrel Overlords (Score:3)
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I, for one, welcome our new vampire squirrel overlords.
FTFY
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Aha...Joss Whedon is not a genius. It turns out he just plagiarized his ideas from Fluffy the Vampire Slayer :(
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My 100% heterosexual and male marine biology degree wishes to contest your postulation.
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https://www.linkedin.com/pub/m... [linkedin.com]
She provides plenty of reasons for the research there. Moreover, the article says nothing about the Smithsonian paying for this research. She just happens to be a world expert on these squirrels and is working there, likely because they have a collection of preserved specimens that she is using in her studies. Given that the Smithsonian is providing their collection of preserved specimens from this species for her research, I wouldn't be surprised if what the universities an
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Time to remake and update (Score:2)
Gonads and Strife https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] with this new Squampire
Re:Why is this on Slashdot? (Score:5, Funny)
Quit your yappin. When I was your age, we used a wood-burning Slashdot. Old Tindery, we called it. Of course, back in those days, we didn't have the internet, we had to connect to it with a couple pieces of copper wire and some old fishing line, which back in those days was known as "trout twine". You could pick up a coil of trout twine and a shiny red apple for a nickel down at Bailey's Drug, but there was a nickel shortage due to the war, so I had to use five red cents which I got from picking a barrel full of cucumbers down in Birchton. "Greeny Sausages", we called them. I could eat a greeny sausage all day. Maybe two, but never three, because then my aunt would give me a whooping with her hickory switch for being greedy. And oh, you don't want to see Aunt Margie's hickory switch. It was a mule's leg in length and made of the most knotty hickory a lad ever did see...
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You sound like the "Grumpy Old Man" [thebigshow.com] character on "The John Boy and Billy Big Show".
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Did you wear an onion on your belt, too? Or was that just the fashion up around Springfield [imdb.com]?
Re:Why is this on Slashdot? (Score:5, Insightful)
News for Nerds... (Score:1)
Its not like it comes easy for us.
Hmm, let me guess... (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm, let me guess...
News for nutters, stuff that squeaks?
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Hmm, let me guess...
News for nutters, stuff that squeaks?
There are options for you. You can block what you don't want.
It's News for Nerds, not News for computer programmers only.
I shall hold off on my usual rational comments. (Score:4, Funny)
Fulffffffffffffffffffffffffffeh!
Holy Crap!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Local legends suggest that Rheithrosciurus, which is thought to mostly eat giant acorns, can be savage. Hunters say that the squirrels will perch on low branches, jump onto a deer, gash its jugular vein, and disembowel the carcass. "It sounds pretty fantastical," says a skeptical Roland Kays, a zoologist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. "Even more than its fluffy tail."
This sounds far too awesome to be fact checked.
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Clearly none of the deer lived to tell the tale.
So fluffy (Score:5, Funny)
"It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!"
Re: So fluffy (Score:1)
He vants to suck your nuts!
Hey look, a squirrel (Score:3, Funny)
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World's fluffiest tail (Score:2)
Oh yeah, finally some real science.
R.O.U.S.'s (Score:5, Funny)
I'm warning you! (Score:2)
He's got huge, sharp... er... He can leap about. Look at the bones!
When you go to Borneo... (Score:2)
It's the Cuteacabra. (Score:4, Funny)
Fluffy the Vampire Squirrel Hunter (Score:2)
New series on the WB coming to you this fall:
Fluffy the Vampire Squirrel Hunter.
Join Fluffy and her team of misfits battle the increasing population of Vampire Squirrels.
Ya, sorry, I know it's stupid, I'm out of weed currently.
It's no match (Score:2)
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they're extinct, the hoop snakes would run them over, then eat them