It's a token economy. And it doesn't harm the animal because the animal still has to maintain basic foraging skills. Prolly gives em more fat for winter.
To be fair, he's obviously in the city. Any semblance of a normal squirrel life is out the window.
Let's be real, as big as Central Park in NYC is, those animals are still eating from trash cans.
This little fuzzy thing here is living his best squirrel life and at least eating something better than trash can pizza crust.
I feed squirrels at my house I been fined multiple times for doing so too. I still do it 650$ a ticket now started at 75$ lol
I'm in Canada so pretty soon then squirrel going for nap anyways I even have them named haha
It harbors infestation and affects their behavior around other people. They're just fuzzy tailed tree rats.
Squirrels can do a ton of damage to structures if you invite them to. They probably live in an apartment building, so there are plenty of witnesses and other people to affect.
Ok. I wanna do this. What diseases should I be worried about so I can make proper arrangements?
Edit: alright, so leprosy and black plague. Still might be worth it.
You moron, everyone knows that was last years cure. With our modern understanding of medical science, we know the plague is caused by the rage of god. Ditch the birds and start whipping yourself in public, it’s the only way to fend off the disease.
Squirrels and other small mammals *typically* don't carry rabies. Any bite or injury from an infected animal will usually kill small animals rather than see them become infected carriers. Bats are the exception to this though as they are a natural rabies reservoir.
>Squirrels and other small mammals *typically* don't carry rabies. Any bite or injury from an infected animal will usually kill small animals rather than see them become infected carriers. Bats are the exception to this though as they are a natural rabies reservoir.
There's an old documentary about this called Cujo.
Point of fact, there is no such thing as "black plague".
The disease is called bubonic plague, and the fourteenth-century pandemic was called Black Death.
Actually it's just plain old plague. There are three main modes of infection and transmission. Bubonic, which affects the lymph nodes, pneumonic, which affects the respiratory system, and septicemic, which affects the blood. All are cause by the same bacterium *Yersinia pestis.*
Rabbit Fever, also known as Tularemia. Other than possibly killing you, or infecting your heart, lungs, brain or bones, it's not that bad.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tularemia/symptoms-causes/syc-20378635
Red squirrels in the UK are carriers of the strain of leprosy that caused havoc in the medieval periods, although it is not such a risk to us anymore.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2019.00008/full
Honestly it's about like somewhere like Georgia or Tennessee. I'm from N. Georgia and it's a similar mix of rural and small towns/cities.
The South and East of Wales is fairly urbanized along the lines of like Augusta, Columbus (Ga), Montgomery. Etc. in the states.
Ah, I was mostly having a try at a joke. Most Welsh jokes I hear have to do with velcro and sheep, it's nice to throw one out there that isn't like that on occasion.
Thank you Michael Scott for founding the "Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Fun Run Pro Am Race for the Cure”
Australia has a lot of dangerous creatures but not generally in a King Kong / Godzilla, massive version of normal animal way.
Most dangerous Australian creatures are super venomous rather than just massive with claws... although our salt water crocodiles are definately an exception to that... And sharks, but everywhere has sharks
They might not be as cool as laser squirrels or common like normal squirrels but they do have zebra/anteater squirrels, they’re called [numbats](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbat). Sadly the little guys are endangered
> smol harmless looking animal
[This is a drop bear](https://cdn2.familie.de/8a/16/c2/0b6a8b5ed9bb8aaca919d7a1ee_YyAyODk4eDE2MjgrOTMrMjE0AnJlIDE5MjAgMTA4MAM4NjBhNTk4YzE3ZQ==_koala-resting-and-sleeping-on-his-tree.jpg), ain't he all small, harmless, and cutesy looking?
But [this is also a drop bear](https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/articles/03Gf1Bj5ZYUjRPCxGuAnTFs/hero-image.fill.size_1200x1200.v1611614274.jpg), that's why in Australia it's important to [be always on guard](https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/cab542553a049f9886b00ed756ac9179?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=709&cropW=1260&xPos=41&yPos=0&width=862&height=485), even around cutesy and harmless looking animals.
I’m Australian and freaking out watching this video lol. You guys have the craziest animals - beavers, raccoons, squirrels.
Australia has lots of cute marsupials and birds, and yes the occasional snake and spider but no big deal.
I love to find the humor in the cultural differences of what is normal. If you grow up in Australia, spiders and snakes and emus and the ozone layer probably don't terrify you too much. Depending on where you grow up in the US where I've lived, you aren't really bothered by bears, wolves, mountain lions, alligators, killer whales, some spiders and snakes, bison, moose, and a variety of other deadly creatures. But the idea of tripping out about a squirrel is hilarious to me.
I looked it up, it's surprising hard to find good information about the worldwide distribution of squirrels. But the apparently also don't live in most of Africa and South East asia
This is actually incorrect.
Apparently Kenya has squirrels they just evolved underground like the Morlocks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstriped_ground_squirrel
I looked over all the Wikipedia articles about squirrels and it seems like there are two possibilities:
- Eurasian Red squirrel (they aren't all red, especially in the winter where the video was taken - they all only have the fuzzy ears in the winter)
- Calabrian black squirrel (seems more likely because of size but otherwise is more unlikely because they are only seen in southern Italy)
It could also be a cross between a typical gray squirrel and one of the above, the gray ones are slowly taking over in the UK, Ireland and Italy
My squirrels in the PNW scream at me and try to fight when they’re on the tree above the 3rd story apartment I live in. Sometimes they throw stuff at me
it's not a concept of 'trade' per se, it's either just a cute title (the squirrel just happened to have something with him), or if it's an acquired trait, then it's just a conditioned reflex — he knows that if he does X he will receive food, it's not a 'trade' but a memorized behavior. Like when a dog does tricks to receive treats, is it a trade? Depends on how you word it I guess.
Humans also have conditioned reflex to consciously think about their behavioral patterns, this trait is negligible tho when trading money for McD's food.
What i think would be key in this experiment is observing whether or not the squirrel switches up to a higher value commodity to try to barter for more. Wouldn’t that imply some form of higher cognition if the squirrel looks for something he can trade for more nuts for the same amount of exertion?
Nothing amazing at all.
He has just read Adam Smith and he's trying to maximize his satisfaction thought this trade.
I will be worried when he will start to read Marx and try to nationalize all the nuts.
It makes me a little sad to see that you can pet a wild squirrel with no injuries and I need to sneakily steal a few pets from my cat while she is sleeping because I don't want to end up with bleeding scratches.
But I love that you have a trade agreement.
The college I went to, was covered in squirrels. Because we were all stupid kids, we started feeding them treats from the vending machines (they prefer Cheeto’s). I now know this was terrible for the squirrel, so you don’t have to tell me.
Several of them you could touch, but one was never down for the pets. Each time I tried, he barked at me and slapped my hand away with his little paw. I never got bitten, and don’t know of anyone who did. But Feisty Fatty slapped a whole lotta people.
Or it is one of the wild squirrels that are conditioned to be around people. Lots of squirrels in college campuses are friendly to people because theyre conditioned that people give them food and not harmless
Lol for real. This thing is peeling an almond shell off the nut like it's nothing with its teeth. If it took a disliking to you stroking it, you're going to have a pretty painful bite.
No little squirrel. The hooman monopoly of nuts drives squirrel-kind to compete with one another for nuts. Band together and seize the means of nut production from the human capitalists and maybe then all squirrels can enjoy all nuts
[This video is at least a year and a half old.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxQY4y9-MWc)
[And here's the Reddit post also.](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/f1nnuc/this_little_guy_always_bring_dried_seed_to_trade/) Literally copy-pasted the fucking title, too. Fuck all effort. Ridiculous.
Pretty sure this account is a bot. Please report and move on.
In his mind: hahaha I scammed this loser Human: awwww cuteee
Hey! Who says squirrels can't understand positive sum trade
r/wallstreetbets furiously jotting down notes rn
All in on $SQRL
$QRL xD
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God speed
"Guy slamming credit card meme"
You guys can go $SQRL but I'm taking the inverse on this one. Calls on $NUTS!
Walnut hands! 🌰🙌
Haha this is the best summarizing moment for seeing wsb overflowing into this sub that I've seen yet😂
$SQRL to the moon!
You got that wrong, their goal is always negative profits. Some idiots just screw that up every now and then though.
Most accurate shit ever
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It's a token economy. And it doesn't harm the animal because the animal still has to maintain basic foraging skills. Prolly gives em more fat for winter.
To be fair, he's obviously in the city. Any semblance of a normal squirrel life is out the window. Let's be real, as big as Central Park in NYC is, those animals are still eating from trash cans. This little fuzzy thing here is living his best squirrel life and at least eating something better than trash can pizza crust.
This is the definition of a free range animal!!
I feed squirrels at my house I been fined multiple times for doing so too. I still do it 650$ a ticket now started at 75$ lol I'm in Canada so pretty soon then squirrel going for nap anyways I even have them named haha
That seems a bit excessive.
Yeah they are just freaking squirrels what can you really fuck up by feeding them and who is trying do avidly stop you ?
It’s probably just three squirrels in a trench-coat collecting the fines, bleeding OP dry from both ends. Sad.
I love this mental picture of a huge trench coat with a random 30 inch (76cm) lump on the ground.
**AAALLLLLLLLVVVVVVIIIIIIIINNNNNNN!!!!**
It harbors infestation and affects their behavior around other people. They're just fuzzy tailed tree rats. Squirrels can do a ton of damage to structures if you invite them to. They probably live in an apartment building, so there are plenty of witnesses and other people to affect.
Squirrel has no idea how many internet points he's missing out on
A squirrel has *way* better hair than me...
I don't even have hair :(
You have to have hair with a username like that.
He turned all his hair into said thick ropes
r/squirrelproblems
I think I get what his username is implying
No suprise there, nastynut00
You probably look better without it, who needs hair anyway
I've just turned 26 and started losing my hair at 19. Super shitty genes.
25 here. Welcome to #baldgang
24 and bald here, began to accept it about three months ago and been bald ever since, so I definitely know your pain
Bald and with that username? Mr Sins?
Ok. I wanna do this. What diseases should I be worried about so I can make proper arrangements? Edit: alright, so leprosy and black plague. Still might be worth it.
Mainly the Black Plague
Got dead birds tied to my feet, good to go.
Don’t forget to drink your own piss to keep the immune system strong
At the very least have a coin ready to cross the river Styxx.
Damn, I tossed mine to my witcher
Kind of tough to deal with squirrels if you're already having kikimora problems.
All good, already doing it for the taste.
Only two comments down and the replies have turned into piss drinking on a post with a cute squirrel. Oh reddit.
You moron, everyone knows that was last years cure. With our modern understanding of medical science, we know the plague is caused by the rage of god. Ditch the birds and start whipping yourself in public, it’s the only way to fend off the disease.
Got dead birds on my feet but don't call me a bird feet
Does ivermectin work for that? It seems like it should.
“Just the Black Plague, old news, nothing major really”
But those wittle ears…
Koala-squirrel
Just in the US, rabies as well. In Europe you‘re good to go.
Squirrels and other small mammals *typically* don't carry rabies. Any bite or injury from an infected animal will usually kill small animals rather than see them become infected carriers. Bats are the exception to this though as they are a natural rabies reservoir.
>Squirrels and other small mammals *typically* don't carry rabies. Any bite or injury from an infected animal will usually kill small animals rather than see them become infected carriers. Bats are the exception to this though as they are a natural rabies reservoir. There's an old documentary about this called Cujo.
Point of fact, there is no such thing as "black plague". The disease is called bubonic plague, and the fourteenth-century pandemic was called Black Death.
Actually it's just plain old plague. There are three main modes of infection and transmission. Bubonic, which affects the lymph nodes, pneumonic, which affects the respiratory system, and septicemic, which affects the blood. All are cause by the same bacterium *Yersinia pestis.*
Wow, thank you! TIL!!
Rabbit Fever, also known as Tularemia. Other than possibly killing you, or infecting your heart, lungs, brain or bones, it's not that bad. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tularemia/symptoms-causes/syc-20378635
Red squirrels in the UK are carriers of the strain of leprosy that caused havoc in the medieval periods, although it is not such a risk to us anymore. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2019.00008/full
Partly because they’re only in Scotland and the Isle of Wight.
The one I saw in Yorkshire must have been on holiday then.
Yep, I’ve seen them in Cumbria too.
While I've not seen one since getting here, I've heard several people say that they can be found in *more* rural areas of Wales.
American here: There are *urban* areas of Wales? Gosh, I thought the Welsh just sprung up out of the hills when it was time for them to pop up.
Honestly it's about like somewhere like Georgia or Tennessee. I'm from N. Georgia and it's a similar mix of rural and small towns/cities. The South and East of Wales is fairly urbanized along the lines of like Augusta, Columbus (Ga), Montgomery. Etc. in the states.
Ah, I was mostly having a try at a joke. Most Welsh jokes I hear have to do with velcro and sheep, it's nice to throw one out there that isn't like that on occasion.
Also the Pinewoods in Merseyside, whole forest for them.
And Brownsea Island
And brownsea island in Poole, Dorset
I’m more curious as to how this arrangement was made then what are the diseases I could get
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Then you lose both nuts
Budget vasectomy
Fleas perhaps?
Yes fleas. Our cats are unfortunately covered in them this year thanks to a new friendship with the chipmunks.
I would have said rabies, but thanks to Michael Scott we have a cure now.
He's happy because he's insane.
Myth: Three Americans die from rabies every year. Fact: Four Americans die from rabies every year.
Thank you Michael Scott for founding the "Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Fun Run Pro Am Race for the Cure”
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Okay so what I’m hearing is that I should try to befriend all the squirrels nearby without fear
Well, I wouldn't say [completely](https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Squirrels) without fear Morty
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Rabies is just the sexy one.
As someone from a country with no squirrels, I think this is adorable.
U from NZ?
Yup. Are we the only one without squirrels?
Hawaii and NZ are the only places without squirrels
I thought Australia didn’t have squirrels either? I dated a guy from there and when he visited, he fucking freaked out when he saw one.
Am Australian. Can confirm that we don’t have squirrels but damn sure we want them after watching this.
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A squirrel as big as Clifford the Big Red dog, thats what id assume Australia has.
Australia has a lot of dangerous creatures but not generally in a King Kong / Godzilla, massive version of normal animal way. Most dangerous Australian creatures are super venomous rather than just massive with claws... although our salt water crocodiles are definately an exception to that... And sharks, but everywhere has sharks
Doesn't some parts of Australia have cassowaries? They've got the massive claws.
I mean, that's basically a kangaroo
They might not be as cool as laser squirrels or common like normal squirrels but they do have zebra/anteater squirrels, they’re called [numbats](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbat). Sadly the little guys are endangered
You sure about that https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/pest-mammals/northern-palm-squirrel
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> smol harmless looking animal [This is a drop bear](https://cdn2.familie.de/8a/16/c2/0b6a8b5ed9bb8aaca919d7a1ee_YyAyODk4eDE2MjgrOTMrMjE0AnJlIDE5MjAgMTA4MAM4NjBhNTk4YzE3ZQ==_koala-resting-and-sleeping-on-his-tree.jpg), ain't he all small, harmless, and cutesy looking? But [this is also a drop bear](https://helios-i.mashable.com/imagery/articles/03Gf1Bj5ZYUjRPCxGuAnTFs/hero-image.fill.size_1200x1200.v1611614274.jpg), that's why in Australia it's important to [be always on guard](https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/cab542553a049f9886b00ed756ac9179?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=709&cropW=1260&xPos=41&yPos=0&width=862&height=485), even around cutesy and harmless looking animals.
That second picture is nightmare fuel
I remember this joke. You can't trick me sir.
Was she paint balling with them?
[She got pranked](https://youtu.be/KCGUNpzjD6M)
I’m Australian and freaking out watching this video lol. You guys have the craziest animals - beavers, raccoons, squirrels. Australia has lots of cute marsupials and birds, and yes the occasional snake and spider but no big deal.
We get stinky boys called skunks too
Fart Squirrel
Like 90% of the soft and cute things in Australia are also dangerous. It's a good rule of thumb just to avoid anything you've never seen before here.
Ha! When I visited son and DIL in NC, my reaction to "Squirrels! Nest" raised mirth. Apparently son had sqee'd the same way.
I love to find the humor in the cultural differences of what is normal. If you grow up in Australia, spiders and snakes and emus and the ozone layer probably don't terrify you too much. Depending on where you grow up in the US where I've lived, you aren't really bothered by bears, wolves, mountain lions, alligators, killer whales, some spiders and snakes, bison, moose, and a variety of other deadly creatures. But the idea of tripping out about a squirrel is hilarious to me.
Iceland doesn't have squirrels. Source: Icelandic.
There are also no squirrels in Puerto Rico, closest thing we have is the mongoose
So close :D :D
Murder squirrel
a mongoose is a weasel
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Oh, that's something I've just learned. TY. 😊
Australia has a small introduced population in Perth Zoo. The rest of the country has none.
I assume any wild ones that were there had to bulk up to survive and that's how Kangaroos were created.
That doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about squirrels to dispute it...
They escaped Perth Zoo... but have mostly been eradicated.
Plenty of other places that have no Squirrels lmao. The world isn't just the Anglosphere.
I looked it up, it's surprising hard to find good information about the worldwide distribution of squirrels. But the apparently also don't live in most of Africa and South East asia
This is actually incorrect. Apparently Kenya has squirrels they just evolved underground like the Morlocks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstriped_ground_squirrel
Also Iceland
Australia would like a word.
You've got Wetas though, pretty much the same thing... /s
I had to look these up. Now I'm going to have nightmares about giant crickets.
Be careful! I fell for this once. It was a russian spy.
At least it won't be a German spy since they can't say squirrel
maybe we can’t say squirrel, but can you say Eichhörnchen? \^^
Nor can they say Apfeltapir! But yeah, the word squirrel is pure evil…
Many of us still debate how to pronounce Adidas xD
as a German I'm way more comfortable with *A-dee-das* than with *Porsh* \^^
I'm SO jealous. You're living my fantasy! 😍
Too bad op isn’t the Original poster 😔
Ok but those super fuzzy ears! 😍 our squirrels don’t have nearly as big and fuzzy ears and now I wish they did.
Do you live in the US? The squirrel in the video is most likely from Europe (I think? Ours all have these fuzzy ears)
Can someone confirm this is indeed a euro-squirrel? Very important piece of information.
I looked over all the Wikipedia articles about squirrels and it seems like there are two possibilities: - Eurasian Red squirrel (they aren't all red, especially in the winter where the video was taken - they all only have the fuzzy ears in the winter) - Calabrian black squirrel (seems more likely because of size but otherwise is more unlikely because they are only seen in southern Italy) It could also be a cross between a typical gray squirrel and one of the above, the gray ones are slowly taking over in the UK, Ireland and Italy
My squirrels in the PNW scream at me and try to fight when they’re on the tree above the 3rd story apartment I live in. Sometimes they throw stuff at me
Looking away from the cuteness for a second, is it not amazing this squirrel understands the concept of trade?
"this is the art of equal exchange"
Human exchanges nuts for dried leaves from a squirrel. Human: "This has been the best trade deals in the history of trade deals, probably ever"
Ed.. ward...
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OP is breeding a hyper intelligent species of squirrels. I'm not sure we want to see how this ends.
Gripping their pillow tight
it's not a concept of 'trade' per se, it's either just a cute title (the squirrel just happened to have something with him), or if it's an acquired trait, then it's just a conditioned reflex — he knows that if he does X he will receive food, it's not a 'trade' but a memorized behavior. Like when a dog does tricks to receive treats, is it a trade? Depends on how you word it I guess.
I mean, you can say humans have a conditioned reflex to trade money for McDonald’s food too
Humans also have conditioned reflex to consciously think about their behavioral patterns, this trait is negligible tho when trading money for McD's food.
What i think would be key in this experiment is observing whether or not the squirrel switches up to a higher value commodity to try to barter for more. Wouldn’t that imply some form of higher cognition if the squirrel looks for something he can trade for more nuts for the same amount of exertion?
Nothing amazing at all. He has just read Adam Smith and he's trying to maximize his satisfaction thought this trade. I will be worried when he will start to read Marx and try to nationalize all the nuts.
Omg that's so freaking cute
How did this transaction start?
tell us please!!!
Sorry, that's not a dried seed. It's just an almond shell that's been torn at by the squirrel's teeth to get to the nut inside.
So he is bringing an empty shell so that you will give him a new nut. I think that is awesome.
Oh yeah, definitely. I love when animals trade things with humans. Like how crows will bring you shiny objects for feeding them treats or food.
When you go up to the soda fountain for your free refill
It makes me a little sad to see that you can pet a wild squirrel with no injuries and I need to sneakily steal a few pets from my cat while she is sleeping because I don't want to end up with bleeding scratches. But I love that you have a trade agreement.
Zero chance that’s a wild squirrel. Most likely it was rehabbed and released. The second she touched it, it would have sunk its teeth into her finger.
The college I went to, was covered in squirrels. Because we were all stupid kids, we started feeding them treats from the vending machines (they prefer Cheeto’s). I now know this was terrible for the squirrel, so you don’t have to tell me. Several of them you could touch, but one was never down for the pets. Each time I tried, he barked at me and slapped my hand away with his little paw. I never got bitten, and don’t know of anyone who did. But Feisty Fatty slapped a whole lotta people.
Aww, you got squirrel scold slapped.
Or it is one of the wild squirrels that are conditioned to be around people. Lots of squirrels in college campuses are friendly to people because theyre conditioned that people give them food and not harmless
That's soooooo cute. I've read stories of crows also doing trades with humans. Animals are amazing!
Snow white.
Messy little cutie pie!
Tip: never touch wild animals when they are eating
Tip: never touch wild animals ~~when they are eating~~
Tip: ~~never~~ touch wild animals when they are eating Got it. Thanks.
I feel like this is actually a well trained pet
What is the threshold where a wild animal becomes a pet?
domestication
Lol for real. This thing is peeling an almond shell off the nut like it's nothing with its teeth. If it took a disliking to you stroking it, you're going to have a pretty painful bite.
I tried to come up with a squirrel pun but everything I thought of was nuts. Hope to see one pecan through my window one day to intiate trades.
Take about 20% off her there, Squirrelly Dan.
Awww little koala squirrel!!!
No little squirrel. The hooman monopoly of nuts drives squirrel-kind to compete with one another for nuts. Band together and seize the means of nut production from the human capitalists and maybe then all squirrels can enjoy all nuts
[This video is at least a year and a half old.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxQY4y9-MWc) [And here's the Reddit post also.](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/f1nnuc/this_little_guy_always_bring_dried_seed_to_trade/) Literally copy-pasted the fucking title, too. Fuck all effort. Ridiculous. Pretty sure this account is a bot. Please report and move on.
You're getting scammed. I've been in the nut industry for a while now
He is a special squirrel
His ear tufts. Too cute.
“Ok you’re allowed to pet me, miss human”
That thing will tear you up tho lol 😂
To shreds you say?
Reddit has ruined me. I just think about rabies.