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antiqueanimals · 9 months ago
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Florida Wildlife; vol. 10, no. 10. March, 1957. Illustration by Wallace Hughes.
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alcnfr · 1 year ago
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A few Eastern Gray Squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) munching around the feedlot this AM...
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woodsfae · 7 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
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akiacia · 6 months ago
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gummies
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awkward-parabuteo · 10 days ago
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Catch of the day
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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.)
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todaysbird · 7 months ago
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birch boy
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t00thpasteface · 8 months ago
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pregnant squirrel wasn't happy about me taking photos of her so she went up into the tree and loafed at me
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celestialmacros · 10 months ago
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Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
February 1, 2024
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, Tinicum, Pennsylvania
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antiqueanimals · 1 year ago
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Wildlife in North Carolina. February 1982. Illustration by Duane Raver Jr.
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alcnfr · 2 years ago
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Some of the assorted Yardlife from today.
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catfindr · 2 years ago
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critter-creature-or-beast · 2 months ago
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Feeling greedy 😈
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snototter · 1 year ago
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A leucistic Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Illinois, USA
by Sean Crane
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birdingblog · 9 days ago
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[ID: Two photos of a gray squirrel sitting in a tree with a cookie half the size of its body held in its mouth. End ID]
Oh to be a squirrel with a big cookie...
Eastern gray squirrel (sciurus carolinensis)
November 1st, 2024
Bagley Nature Area, Duluth, Minnesota
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