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antiqueanimals · 8 months ago

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Florida Wildlife; vol. 10, no. 10. March, 1957. Illustration by Wallace Hughes.

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alcnfr · 11 months ago

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A few Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) munching around the feedlot this AM...

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woodsfae · 6 months ago

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I saw these baby squirrels with their Ma out on my walk around the neighborhood today.

Ma Squirrel hissed and barked till we went away. Sorry, Ma.

05/05/2024

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rachelsrandomsphotos · 1 year ago

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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

Taken at Gleason Park in Indian Harbour Beach, FL

#eastern gray squirrel #gray squirrel #gray squirrels #squirrel #squirrels #wildlife #wildlife photography #nature photography #photography #florida #florida photography #florida photographer #Gleason park #park #nikon photography #nikond3500 #animal photography

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akiacia · 6 months ago

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#akia art #olba #baxter ward #olba mc #goofy gifs from warmup chibis #i've Unsolicited Animal Associations too (word soup ahead)#i think gray tuxedo baxcat is thematically appropriate but i'm fond of solid gray too..i'll probably draw them interchangeably #maggie has lovebird kisses but secretarybird of prey energy and legs so the audience can decide which suits better #cove's a sea turtle based on the ingame convo #derek's a livestock guardian dog of an undecided breed #lizard liz doesn't do much for me sans 🐉 but i subscribe to 🐍#lee gives squirrel?? but maybe she's more of a songbird #bunny miranda and ferret terry based on vibes #i could see shiloh being a chameleon or a weasel or an octo (i guess what i'm saying is he's ditto to me

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bonefall · 7 months ago

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Bit of a random one but rereading the parable of the squirrels got me curious: how would clan cats (or just thunderclan in particular) view black/melanistic squirrels? Have any of them ever seen one? Im not sure how common they are in the uk, but i know they can be relatively prevalent in areas that have them sometimes

Black squirrels are nothing more than a simple morph! They get common in areas that have melanistic genes present as a result of simple genetic drift, though I've seen it proposed that black fur is an advantage in cold areas.

The gene is rare in the populations the Warriors come across, so they almost never see it. In spite of ShadowClan's unwillingness to control the gray squirrel population, ThunderClan is so aggressive about it that the pool stays shallow. Red Squirrels (pishkaf) do not have this gene. Only Gray Squirrels (chakchak) do.

So every time a black squirrel manages to occur, it's treated like a dire omen. Even ShadowClan takes it seriously.

Black as a color is associated with day and night cycles, because of Moon Shadow, Sun Shadow, and Shadowstar. Gray Squirrels are associated with war and benefit at the suffering of others. These things together herald great upheaval-- so cataclysmic that it would likely not be an "honorable conflict."

If you came to your Cleric with this omen, they would be struck with a look of terrible alarm. They'd be interested in its context, what it was doing, if it was eating anything, what its surroundings looked like. Someone like BB!Runningnose, interested in supporting Brokenstar's ambitions, might spin it as a positive sign.

Most Clerics would announce that the squirrel needs to be killed IMMEDIATELY, and launch a massive hunt to destroy it. What would come next would likely depend on the culture of the time, but for the most part I can imagine some sort of mass "purification" ritual. The whole Clan trying to identify how they can avoid the cataclysm, one of the few times where they see a glorious war as a bad thing.

The cat who kills the squirrel would likely earn an Honor Title. It's also very likely that the body of the animal is treated as a very powerful material-- burned to ash to prevent its use in forbidden magic or carefully preserved and made into something special, no in-between.

(Thinking about it... thanks for the idea I'll totally do this for Brokenstar's Cataclysm lmao. The sinew of the black squirrel is probably used to re-string Runny's acorn necklace.)

#Note that this is why Clanmew doesn't use a generic term for squirrel #Reds and Grays have maaaaassively different cultural meanings!#You can make Pishchak or Chakaf on the spot but it would hit weird to a Clan cat.#Closest English example; it's like calling a fox a 'reynard' or a wolf a 'lupine beast'#Clan culture #Pishkaf om chakchak #Squirrels #Gray squirrel #Red squirrel #Better Bones Au

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kosherkirby · 2 months ago

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