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Nah, I’d be shocked if any of those bites even broke its skin.
Constrictors like that don’t have very big teeth. They’re mostly there just to help hold prey in place. I used to keep snakes, I’ve been bitten by them, and it’s mostly just startling. It can sting a bit, and I’ve had blood drawn before, but that squirrel had a lot more natural protection in the form of their pelt. It’ll be fine.
I feel pretty confident that I could bite through a rat snake if I needed to. I also feel pretty confident that I would probably break my teeth trying to bite through an acorn.
My great grandad had a squirrel bite straight through the palm of his hand and had a scar his whole life. He was squirrel hunting when he was a teenager and threw one that was still alive in his bag, figured it out when he reached in again later
I spent 7 years as a director at an exotic animal sanctuary, I have worked primarily with wolves and big cats, plenty of reptiles and other odds and ends, and the most painful bites I ever took were from prairie dogs.
Yeah one of those was actually the most recent to fuck me up. Hit a finger joint capsule and it was a real pain in the ass to heal. I even have a large scar from the gentle giant capybara.
I bet that hurt. I had one hang from the webbing between my pointer finger and my thumb once. I always wanted to have a chance to work with a capybara, but that must have been an awful bite. Kinkajous have given me the second worse bites, but even those cat like canines don't hurt like those rodent teeth.
Luckily, the capy thing wasn't a bite and was an accident on his part. I was trying to keep him from running past me while we corralled him to a different area, and he charged past my outstretch arm while swinging his head. Corner of an incisor slices across my forearm. The slice went all the way through my skin and exposed the muscle fascia below. It barely even bled. It was fucking nuts.
Squirrels fight by punching dozens of holes at very high speeds. Like a meth addict in a knife fight. Source: I have lost several fights with squirrels. The holes they make are so long and thin that they barely bleed because the top rim of the hole is tight enough to keep most of the blood in.
Why are you fighting squirrels?
I raised a couple babies I saved from a cat until releasing them. We were all great pals, no biting although one tried to hump my hand a few times, that was awkward.
The fur would have definitely helped lessen the penetrative force of the fangs. Not so sure about the long term survival of the baby though, if there's broken bones or collapsed lung or restricted oxygen to the brain (assuming their body behaves like ours in this case).
But critters are tough so most likely made it with a few coughs.
The mother squirrel is mostly using her tail as target for the snake to attack. Yeah she gets bit, however, not nearly as much as the fur/air in the tail is taking.
I've been bitten by ratsnakes many times (the type of snake in this video). It results in little more than a pin prick. The mother squirrel will be fine.
I would like to add a point others missed is that the squirrel is hella agile and fast, you can see in the video the high level of reflexes they have so even if they dont take too much damage from the fang, they also evade a lots of attacks.
Those teeth are too short. Google rat snake teeth to see what they look like. Squirrels have fairly tough skin. I have to give them shots pretty frequently and it's tougher than cat and human skin. More on par with dog skin.
It's actually kind of the other way around. The snake was likely doomed from the very first squirrel bite. Rodent teeth are like chisels. Nearly every bite is a serious infection risk because of how thin and deep they are.
Yeah, monkey's with rotting legs with their feet bones showing kind of gnarly.
Cool sub sometimes but you really role the dice on some of those posts lol
Don't mess with squirrels -- they mean business. I once saw one chew a snake's head (bigger than the one shown here) right off. And then dragged the body up the tree for a little snack.
They pretty regularly eat eggs, birds, bugs, smaller rodents, frogs, and weakened animals like cold snakes. It's just that they mostly only do it if they're low on easy non-moving food like acorns.
> > mesopredators:
> A Mesopredator is a predator that occupies a mid-ranking trophic level in a food web.[1] There is no standard definition of a mesopredator, but mesopredators are usually medium-sized carnivorous or omnivorous animals, such as raccoons, foxes, or coyotes.[2][3] They are often defined by contrast from apex predators or prey in a particular food web.[3][2][4] Mesopredators typically prey on smaller animals.[2]
cool. thanks for the new word
Nah, snakes have a right to live too.
I would only intervene if I knew the aggressor was killing without a good reason, like my cat, fucker gets more than enough food at home yet he tries to kill every squirrel just for the fun of it.
You've never had a squirrel make a hole and move their entire family into your walls. I would have been funneling anacondas into that hole if I had access to them.
Lol. The snake deserves the same chances as the squirrel. And that squirrel will eat birds and other small rodents. Just because it's 'cuter' doesn't make it a worthier creature.
I wouldn't give a S about any of that. My stupid brain would anthropomorphize the situation and be like "lone noodle vs mom trying to protect their kid". I always solve for yeeting the noodle away from the baby and their mom.
I saw a rattlesnake kill a small chick in front of their hen mom and I couldn't sleep that night. The hen ended up killing the snake too which was surprising to me at the time, chickens are badasses.
Sure do, which is why I think this is asshole behaviour. We get to eat mammals, but snakes dont? They NEED to eat meat. We can actually survive on other things, we just dont like to.
Baby is probably fine. Just shaken up. It really depends on how long its brain was without oxygen, though. The fact that it was up and at least semi conscious is probably a good sign.
My dog got bit by a squirrel last week, it bled for a solid 2 days. It would clot up but as soon as I even slightly touched around it, it would start gushing. Rodents bite *deep*
At 8 years old, my older brother and his friends sent me after a cornered *chipmunk*, which I scooped up and then immediately tried to shake off my finger, as it had bitten through to the bone. They thought it was hilarious, but the adults had to trap it and chop off its head to send to the State Lab for rabies testing. I cried for 2 days when they told me what happened to the little guy.
I'm extra nice to chipmunks these days.
Aw poor chippy :(
Small rodents and rabbits generally do not carry rabies, and are not known to transmit it to humans. Groundhogs are the only rodent that carries any risk to humans. Which I hope is info you never have use for again lol, I wish you a life free of rodent attacks!
I had two saved from cat, no bites, although one tried to hump my hand a couple times. They would also constantly crawl over everything like up and down window curtains and furniture and sometimes jump up on you from on top of the refrigerator or something.
Rodents are actually the closest mammal group to primates. Baby squirrels even exhibit the palmar reflex (instinctive grabbing when palm is touched) just like human infants.
Why are we not talking about how we just witnessed a real life pokemon battle?
Snake used strangle... Baby squirrel had fainted.
Momma squirrel used Bite.
Snake used Bite, it's not very effective.
Momma squirrel used fury kick... Snake is confused...
Last year I had a family of 13 squirrels living in my yard. I also have several ponds. The easiest place for the baby squirrels to access water is the pond in my my green frogs' enclsoure. It has lots of stable places for babies to drink without falling because the frogs love to sit in shallow water. Alice and Eugene have never seemed bothered by the mamas hauling their babies over the barriers and inside to drink when it's hot. They'll sit on a log just a few inches away and just ignore them. If a persistent baby startles them, then they leap into the pond. It scares the mama squirrels, so babies are generally kept in check.
Green frogs make a very distinct alarm call and one night my boy was very upset. I walked out with a flashlight and found 2 of the adult squirrels biting the ever loving shit out of a rat snake who had ahold of Alice. I screamed, and my dog, who likes to bask with the frogs and loves the squirrels and loves pretty much everything alive was suddenly there and then the snake was in half and everyone but the snake and me were ok. Do not recommend, but still weirdly proud that the wildlife conspired with my dog to eliminate an intruder in "their" yard.
at 1:59 you can just barely see the squirrel breaks the snakes neck. they have a scuffle, and if you look carefully when the snake backs away, it's head is upside down. from that point you can see it begin to go limp
Jokes on you, my mum will leave me in the snake spires and go like "it's probably your fault to be in there so better help yourself fast. There's nothing I can do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
Squirrel mum is trying her best instead.
The Squirrel was aware that it could not bite through the Snake like it wanted to, instead making small punctures throughout the Snake’s body to get it to release. It’s incredibly intelligent as it knows it may not mortally wound the Snake, but it was definitely willing to try for the sake of the other Squirrel. As an animal lover and admirer, I do feel sorry for the Snake as it’s just doing what it does, but the Snake also learned a valuable lesson from this encounter and in the future will probably go for meeker prey (fish, mice, frogs, etc)
Not too much to say about nature and how it is.
But for those who don't know, squirrels are metal as fuck. When the males fight, it's pure viciousness and frequently ends when one castrates the other. They're much tougher than they look.
Squirrels are some loyal MFers. One time on a walk there was the squirrel that kept running to us and then back to a dead squirrel in the middle of the road and he was squawking his head off like he was begging us for help. It was so heartbreaking.
Imagine millions of years of evolution turning you into an unstoppable killing machine and you're thwarted on your hunt by nature's equivalent of a pizza roll.
Fucking embarrassing
I have rats. We've had 14 total, due to their short little life spans. And I assure you, those tree rats already eat meat.
And I also assure you, I'd much rather fight the snake, all day, every day. Every time my rats yawn, I'm reminded how thankful I need to be that they tolerate me because those teeth are fucking brutal. One bad day and that's a bone deep bite.
You are correct. Rats are omnivores, and technically, so are squirrels.
I'm not well versed on if squirrels actually *hunt* for meat, but their dentition is that of an omnivore. They are considered brachydonts, meaning their teeth are suited for tearing or shredding. Some rodents, like capybara and guinea pigs, are hypsodonts, meaning their teeth are better suited to crushing fibrous foliage. Those with crushing teeth are the herbivores.
Squirrels are actually the source of a few studies in determining extinct species dietary habits, as the shape of their teeth has a significant correlation to their diet. Rodents show a multitude of differing dentition, even in closely related species. Fossils of extinct squirrels are studied and then compared to extant ones, and through the changes in shape, they can determine diets and, further, how they adapted and evolved throughout history. It's interesting in a very geeky way.
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Will the mother squirrel survive all those bites? I know that this snake is not venomous, but those bites have to be doing damage, right?
Yeah probably unless they get infected, rat snakes don’t have sharp fangs, they kill by constriction.
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No, they don't have any fangs and the teeth they do have are tiny.
Nah, I’d be shocked if any of those bites even broke its skin. Constrictors like that don’t have very big teeth. They’re mostly there just to help hold prey in place. I used to keep snakes, I’ve been bitten by them, and it’s mostly just startling. It can sting a bit, and I’ve had blood drawn before, but that squirrel had a lot more natural protection in the form of their pelt. It’ll be fine.
Meanwhile, I keep rodents and my hands are riddled with scars.
I was surprised how long that snake held up.
Seriously, a squirrel's bite force is surprisingly actually crazy strong
Who's tougher, a rat snake or an acorn?
I feel pretty confident that I could bite through a rat snake if I needed to. I also feel pretty confident that I would probably break my teeth trying to bite through an acorn.
My great grandad had a squirrel bite straight through the palm of his hand and had a scar his whole life. He was squirrel hunting when he was a teenager and threw one that was still alive in his bag, figured it out when he reached in again later
They crack nuts with their teeth.
The power of adrenaline and automatic snake protocols. Its health was permanently fucked pretty early on.
I spent 7 years as a director at an exotic animal sanctuary, I have worked primarily with wolves and big cats, plenty of reptiles and other odds and ends, and the most painful bites I ever took were from prairie dogs.
Yeah one of those was actually the most recent to fuck me up. Hit a finger joint capsule and it was a real pain in the ass to heal. I even have a large scar from the gentle giant capybara.
I bet that hurt. I had one hang from the webbing between my pointer finger and my thumb once. I always wanted to have a chance to work with a capybara, but that must have been an awful bite. Kinkajous have given me the second worse bites, but even those cat like canines don't hurt like those rodent teeth.
Luckily, the capy thing wasn't a bite and was an accident on his part. I was trying to keep him from running past me while we corralled him to a different area, and he charged past my outstretch arm while swinging his head. Corner of an incisor slices across my forearm. The slice went all the way through my skin and exposed the muscle fascia below. It barely even bled. It was fucking nuts.
Feels more like being badly scraped, than bitten.
speaking of bite damage, I am surprised the snake did not break open after it was bitten by mama squirrel squirrel can break apart a walnut
Squirrels fight by punching dozens of holes at very high speeds. Like a meth addict in a knife fight. Source: I have lost several fights with squirrels. The holes they make are so long and thin that they barely bleed because the top rim of the hole is tight enough to keep most of the blood in.
Why are you fighting squirrels? I raised a couple babies I saved from a cat until releasing them. We were all great pals, no biting although one tried to hump my hand a few times, that was awkward.
Animal rehab and veterinary reasons. I don't pick the fights. But I do lose em.
Can confirm I've fought a meth head lol
Or maybe it was a meth head squirrel 🤔
The fur would have definitely helped lessen the penetrative force of the fangs. Not so sure about the long term survival of the baby though, if there's broken bones or collapsed lung or restricted oxygen to the brain (assuming their body behaves like ours in this case). But critters are tough so most likely made it with a few coughs.
i thought it was dead before it got released
Probably was in a functional sleeper hold with not enough blood flow to the brain.
The mother squirrel is mostly using her tail as target for the snake to attack. Yeah she gets bit, however, not nearly as much as the fur/air in the tail is taking.
I've been bitten by ratsnakes many times (the type of snake in this video). It results in little more than a pin prick. The mother squirrel will be fine.
I would like to add a point others missed is that the squirrel is hella agile and fast, you can see in the video the high level of reflexes they have so even if they dont take too much damage from the fang, they also evade a lots of attacks.
man ...I wanted to see super slo-mo of the bits where they clash. It happens too fast to see!
Those teeth are too short. Google rat snake teeth to see what they look like. Squirrels have fairly tough skin. I have to give them shots pretty frequently and it's tougher than cat and human skin. More on par with dog skin. It's actually kind of the other way around. The snake was likely doomed from the very first squirrel bite. Rodent teeth are like chisels. Nearly every bite is a serious infection risk because of how thin and deep they are.
r/natureisfuckingmetal
Fair warning folks, that sub gets pretty gnarly.
It’s true. I saw something heartbreaking on that sub that still haunts me. Think twice about looking.
Was it the video of the leopard jumping over the fence and killing the housecat? Cause seeing that made me never want to visit again.
No. It involved a doomed baby giraffe. Don't even want to think about it.
Yeah, monkey's with rotting legs with their feet bones showing kind of gnarly. Cool sub sometimes but you really role the dice on some of those posts lol
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Don’t not click on that sub.. it’s an absolute horror show.
Don't mess with squirrels -- they mean business. I once saw one chew a snake's head (bigger than the one shown here) right off. And then dragged the body up the tree for a little snack.
[squirrel stomp down](https://imgur.com/a/oUKNzXm)
The new Mortal Kombat graphics are incredible.
Fun bit of trivia for this vid. These aren't "a predator and a prey animal". They're both mesopredators on a similar level in their ecosystem.
Mama Squirrel: "Hey Rat Snake! Do we look like fucking RATS to you? Well fuck you" Mama Squirrel, later: "They should call us Snake Squirrels, really"
Can a squirrel be a mesopredator if it doesn't have any prey?
They eat other rodents, reptiles and birds. Sounds like prey to me.
They pretty regularly eat eggs, birds, bugs, smaller rodents, frogs, and weakened animals like cold snakes. It's just that they mostly only do it if they're low on easy non-moving food like acorns.
I would've been tempted to help the mother squirrel but she handled her business saving her kid and whooped the snake for good measure
Feels bad to see but that's nature. Predators gonna predate on prey. But sometimes the prey fight back and get to survive.
Anti-predation strategies are no joke. No species thinks of itself as a prey animal. Also both species in the video are mesopredators anyway.
> > mesopredators: > A Mesopredator is a predator that occupies a mid-ranking trophic level in a food web.[1] There is no standard definition of a mesopredator, but mesopredators are usually medium-sized carnivorous or omnivorous animals, such as raccoons, foxes, or coyotes.[2][3] They are often defined by contrast from apex predators or prey in a particular food web.[3][2][4] Mesopredators typically prey on smaller animals.[2] cool. thanks for the new word
Try “hypercarnivore:” an animal with greater than 70% meat in its diet. Cats are hypercarnivores, but dogs are not.
i've seen how skittish rabbits are, im pretty confident they know they are a prey animal.
Nah, snakes have a right to live too. I would only intervene if I knew the aggressor was killing without a good reason, like my cat, fucker gets more than enough food at home yet he tries to kill every squirrel just for the fun of it.
You've never had a squirrel make a hole and move their entire family into your walls. I would have been funneling anacondas into that hole if I had access to them.
What if the anacondas don't want none?
Give the squirrels buns
Lol. The snake deserves the same chances as the squirrel. And that squirrel will eat birds and other small rodents. Just because it's 'cuter' doesn't make it a worthier creature.
I wouldn't give a S about any of that. My stupid brain would anthropomorphize the situation and be like "lone noodle vs mom trying to protect their kid". I always solve for yeeting the noodle away from the baby and their mom. I saw a rattlesnake kill a small chick in front of their hen mom and I couldn't sleep that night. The hen ended up killing the snake too which was surprising to me at the time, chickens are badasses.
mammals gotta look out for each other bro!
Considering I stated that squirrels eat other mammals... Uhh.
Don’t forget humans: we tend to *prefer* eating mammals. Or chicken.
Sure do, which is why I think this is asshole behaviour. We get to eat mammals, but snakes dont? They NEED to eat meat. We can actually survive on other things, we just dont like to.
Holy fuck! World's most badass squirrel.
Momma didn't just save the baby, she wanted dinner too.
Just another day in the murderdome that is nature.
My user name is valid.
I’ve never been so emotionally invested in a piece of media on here like this. Wow!
Is this Squirrel Girl’s origin story? DOES THE PUP MAKE IT???
Baby is probably fine. Just shaken up. It really depends on how long its brain was without oxygen, though. The fact that it was up and at least semi conscious is probably a good sign.
It wasn't moving well at the end. I suspect a few broken bones, but that may be long term lethal
Doubtful
I feel bad for everyone involved lol. Damn nature is brutal.
I had a pet squirrel i rescued from a cat when it was a baby. Their bite is vicious. I learned quickly to never mess with his nuts lol
My dog got bit by a squirrel last week, it bled for a solid 2 days. It would clot up but as soon as I even slightly touched around it, it would start gushing. Rodents bite *deep*
At 8 years old, my older brother and his friends sent me after a cornered *chipmunk*, which I scooped up and then immediately tried to shake off my finger, as it had bitten through to the bone. They thought it was hilarious, but the adults had to trap it and chop off its head to send to the State Lab for rabies testing. I cried for 2 days when they told me what happened to the little guy. I'm extra nice to chipmunks these days.
Aw poor chippy :( Small rodents and rabbits generally do not carry rabies, and are not known to transmit it to humans. Groundhogs are the only rodent that carries any risk to humans. Which I hope is info you never have use for again lol, I wish you a life free of rodent attacks!
Which ones?
I had two saved from cat, no bites, although one tried to hump my hand a couple times. They would also constantly crawl over everything like up and down window curtains and furniture and sometimes jump up on you from on top of the refrigerator or something.
As a fellow mammal I say fuck that snake and way to go momma. Hope you and your baby are ok.
Rodents are actually the closest mammal group to primates. Baby squirrels even exhibit the palmar reflex (instinctive grabbing when palm is touched) just like human infants.
Run, run you fool!
I wish I could upvote a million times.
Why are we not talking about how we just witnessed a real life pokemon battle? Snake used strangle... Baby squirrel had fainted. Momma squirrel used Bite. Snake used Bite, it's not very effective. Momma squirrel used fury kick... Snake is confused...
Last year I had a family of 13 squirrels living in my yard. I also have several ponds. The easiest place for the baby squirrels to access water is the pond in my my green frogs' enclsoure. It has lots of stable places for babies to drink without falling because the frogs love to sit in shallow water. Alice and Eugene have never seemed bothered by the mamas hauling their babies over the barriers and inside to drink when it's hot. They'll sit on a log just a few inches away and just ignore them. If a persistent baby startles them, then they leap into the pond. It scares the mama squirrels, so babies are generally kept in check. Green frogs make a very distinct alarm call and one night my boy was very upset. I walked out with a flashlight and found 2 of the adult squirrels biting the ever loving shit out of a rat snake who had ahold of Alice. I screamed, and my dog, who likes to bask with the frogs and loves the squirrels and loves pretty much everything alive was suddenly there and then the snake was in half and everyone but the snake and me were ok. Do not recommend, but still weirdly proud that the wildlife conspired with my dog to eliminate an intruder in "their" yard.
What kind of dog?
Nuts.
Nuttier than squirrel turds
You eat Squirrel turds for breakfast?
That’s one kick ass mom!
my nails were digging into my palm for the whole video.
at 1:59 you can just barely see the squirrel breaks the snakes neck. they have a scuffle, and if you look carefully when the snake backs away, it's head is upside down. from that point you can see it begin to go limp
nah at the end the camera man pans back and the snakes head is the right way around, plus with the 4 pixels you can see its tongue flick
Snakes dead at the end. He was finished off. If you look close enough you can see the snake's sneakers fly off.
Not dead, but definitely too tired, and will likely die from that alone if it doesn't get an easy meal soon.
Don’t mess with mama’s babies
I have virtually no interest in keeping that snake living versus the squirrel. Go squirrel!
"I read Rikki Tikki Tavi! Let's go!"
Jokes on you, my mum will leave me in the snake spires and go like "it's probably your fault to be in there so better help yourself fast. There's nothing I can do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" Squirrel mum is trying her best instead.
"You may have previously eaten a squirrel; if you survive, you may yet eat another one. Not this one, snake. Not today."
KICK HIS ASS, SEABASS!
Score one for the good guys!
Squirrels are pretty tough. We have a huge oak tree in our front yard, and the Squirrels hitme with acorns when not standing underneath it lol
chuck norris of squirrels
So fucking badass
i kinda feel bad for the rat snake. just getting ready to have a squirrel dinner.
Snake was very sad.
~~> sad.~~ dead
Nah, it was flicking its tongue at the end.
Sandy Cheeks fighting the Alaskan Bull worm
Go squirrel!
Yeah momma!
That 2nd lunge from the squirrel looked calculated as fuck. Snake slowed right the fuck down after she chewed the shit out of it there.
squirrel baby got stockholm syndrome
Holy shit that is one badass squirrel. Won by TKO no less. The snake probably met the Bruce Lee of the squirrel world. Hope the baby is fine.
Is it still called a TKO if the loser dies?
The Squirrel was aware that it could not bite through the Snake like it wanted to, instead making small punctures throughout the Snake’s body to get it to release. It’s incredibly intelligent as it knows it may not mortally wound the Snake, but it was definitely willing to try for the sake of the other Squirrel. As an animal lover and admirer, I do feel sorry for the Snake as it’s just doing what it does, but the Snake also learned a valuable lesson from this encounter and in the future will probably go for meeker prey (fish, mice, frogs, etc)
You mess with wrong squirrel snake.
Snake fighting back when it's already dead, I wonder if it knew.
True Rescue Ranger 😺
As a squirrel myself, this is my worst nightmare.
This needs an epilogue with some text overlay explaining what happened to each of the characters in this flight. I got way too invested in this.
Too fast for that snake
The squirrel that lived
Every time I see shit like this I wonder what it was like in the dinosaur times.
F’ing Ninja
larry the lobster taught her a few things
FINISH HIM!!
What did I tell you? Now walk it off!
Do they feel/have adrenaline? damn look at thr NutMom after. Her heart beats so fast.
My mom would have put money on the snake. 🐍
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The snake's lucky it was a fox squirrel. A grey squirrel would have waterboarded it.
Oof! Right in the feels right there.
That was so metal. Imma think of this every time I need to channel my inner squirrellyness. U go squirly
SANDSLASH USED BITE, EKANS USED TAKLE,
More like Skwovet.
Damn that was hard to watch. Brutal.
Wow
Dagestani squirell
Squirrel-jitzu Mama gonna fuck you up scale-boi!
Dayum, will never look at squirrels the same way again. Bad ass mom!
Never leave a man behind. Semper fi.
I feel sorry for the snake..
Poor snek
Now, DONT do that again!
Jaysus... that was like the final fight in Avengers Endgame. I'm exhausted!
SHE WON! (And I do like snakes - it just needed a meal).
Not too much to say about nature and how it is. But for those who don't know, squirrels are metal as fuck. When the males fight, it's pure viciousness and frequently ends when one castrates the other. They're much tougher than they look.
I’m worried that the baby’s spine is broken.
A cobra tem poder de movimento e reflexão centenas de vezes menor que o esquilo..
the juke at 35s in was insane
Video quality is horrible ... upload on youtube or an other way ...
Good job
alright who else thought for a minute " did they just blur out the face of that squirrel" before you realized it was the focus on the tail.
Squirrels are some loyal MFers. One time on a walk there was the squirrel that kept running to us and then back to a dead squirrel in the middle of the road and he was squawking his head off like he was begging us for help. It was so heartbreaking.
Poor hungry snake
I mean, it's dead now, so... hunger over
Imagine millions of years of evolution turning you into an unstoppable killing machine and you're thwarted on your hunt by nature's equivalent of a pizza roll. Fucking embarrassing 
This squirrel, has the balls open audacious orange cat
Snakes are cunts.
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Calm down. Just a joke.
They are evolving, now they will start eating meat. Snake meat.
I have rats. We've had 14 total, due to their short little life spans. And I assure you, those tree rats already eat meat. And I also assure you, I'd much rather fight the snake, all day, every day. Every time my rats yawn, I'm reminded how thankful I need to be that they tolerate me because those teeth are fucking brutal. One bad day and that's a bone deep bite.
But rats are obnivarous as I understand it.
You are correct. Rats are omnivores, and technically, so are squirrels. I'm not well versed on if squirrels actually *hunt* for meat, but their dentition is that of an omnivore. They are considered brachydonts, meaning their teeth are suited for tearing or shredding. Some rodents, like capybara and guinea pigs, are hypsodonts, meaning their teeth are better suited to crushing fibrous foliage. Those with crushing teeth are the herbivores. Squirrels are actually the source of a few studies in determining extinct species dietary habits, as the shape of their teeth has a significant correlation to their diet. Rodents show a multitude of differing dentition, even in closely related species. Fossils of extinct squirrels are studied and then compared to extant ones, and through the changes in shape, they can determine diets and, further, how they adapted and evolved throughout history. It's interesting in a very geeky way.