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Squirrels across the country are splooting from the heat (slate.com)
One for hawkinspeter:
https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/splooting-squirrels-animals.html
On hot days, squirrels keep cool by splooting (stretching out) on cool surfaces to reduce body heat. It is sometimes referred to as heat dumping.
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Where have the squirrels gone? And many of the birds too?
I've been a home worker since lockdown and in the last 2-3 years have seen squirrels where I don't recall them before in our garden burying their nuts, my wife feeding and taming several different individuals, splooting (now I know that's a thing) and I assume aggressing each other in the trees with this chuuu chuuu chuuur noise I didn't know they made. Now barely a one.
Similar on birds - the dawn chorus in May/June seemed epic. Pigeons and crow family still around, but not the numbers of finches we used to get, we had a brood of starlings who have gone, blackbirds seem to have gone, sparrows in their quarrelsome flocks are around but less frequent. Country walks often silent.
They're gathering their forces and waiting for the best time to strike
I didn't even know they were unionised.
I scan read that as "onionised"
Mmmmm tasty.
You lot - honestly 🧑🏻💻
Seeing LOTS of foxes - could there be a link?
"Sploot" is a most cromulent word - I'll try using it in as many conversations as possible
Me too. I'll probably avoid 'heat dumping' though - sounds more like what might happen if you fed them a particularly potent chilli
I hope no-one takes this personally but I came here expecting to find the temperature at which squirrels spontaneously combust.
Fortunately for those of that persuasion there's a wikihow:
https://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Squirrel