Watch me pull a rabbit outa my hat.......Nut-in up
m'sleeve....................."again????" yer a quick wit
Salty......................madgardener who had to use her son, St. Dharma to
decode yer answer.....................
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"Shiva" wrote in
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Now that we have had some cool weather (80s F daytime, 60s nights)
the chipmunks and squirrels and of course VOLES (grrrr) are out and
about more, and the squirrels are doing something really weird.

They dig out a little scooped place in the rose bed or at the base
of one of the big old oaks, then they leap like 3 feet up in the air
and flip when they hit the ground and flop around. They seem to take
turns doing this and wind up on their bellies with their tails sort of
laying down flat on their backs. They appear to be having a great time.

I have seen this before but it was in the spring and I attributed it
to mating behavior. But they don't mate in the fall, do they?



Yes, you may find this hard to believe but squirrels, like humans, live
in advanced societies. Noted squirrel anthropologist Stacy Nutt has
discovered that squirrels in the NW worship a diety known as
"ppullueaneankal". The behavior you are witnessing is just one of many
rituals for communing with the diety.

Another squirrel diety is named "Lroci". ppullueaneankal is usually
depicted as a large male cervine mammal with large palmate antlers, while
Lroci is usually a normal sized squirrel. Lroci is tyically depicted
wearing goggles and a leather helmet.

-- Salty