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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMysteries of the wild that redefine our understanding of nature's pecking order.
This morning I was walking the dog when I saw this red shoulder hawk sitting on the end of a limb on a dead tree. I thought, "Damn, I need a camera! I need it now!" and just when I thought I had reached peak AWE the scene turns into something entirely different. Spanish Moss had clumped up at the center of the tree and from this morass-ma out comes a baby squirrel. It runs along the limb that the Red Shoulder Hawk is perched on. When the baby squirrel is four feet from the hawk, the squirrel takes a jump to come down and jounce the limb. It has the desired effect and the hawk is startled and flies away.
I'm thinking to myself, take a lesson out of nature and BE THE SQUIRREL.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)a side street in NYC and noticed that a cat was intently watching a young squirrel in my path. I thought I was about to see a "Wild Kingdom" moment but the youngster escaped when he realized he was in danger. BE THE SQUIRREL.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)he stopped and went into "begging" position, as he does daily for me as I am leaving for work, and I tossed him a peanut-in-the-shell....as I was backing away, I saw him up in the tree, happily chomping on the peanut
BE THE SQUIRREL
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I looked up to see this bad ass.
BE THE SQUIRREL
Iggo
(47,565 posts)Now a Wish Sandwich is a sandwich where you have two pieces of bread and...hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm...you WISH you had some meat! Bow, bow bow...
BE THE SQUIRREL!
lastlib
(23,286 posts)Now I want a COOL-water sandwich, and a SUNDAY-Go-To-Meetin' bun!
Skittles
(153,193 posts)"This happened while I was in my first year of medical school. I was taking an exam in anatomy. It was really tough. They ask questions like "How many bones are there in the hand?" I was stymied. I kept saying to myself, "How many bones are there in the hand?" Then I heard this little voice that said "24." I looked around the room and there sitting on the window sill of the classroom was this little grey squirrel with a very intelligent face. And he pointed at his hand and said "24." So I wrote it down. And then after the exam I rushed over to the library to look it up. And would you believe it? That stupid squirrel was wrong by four bones. I went looking all over the campus for him. I wanted to kill him. I finally found him over on a bench by the pysche department. "You were wrong!" I screamed at him. "There's 28 bones in the human hand!" "Oh," he said pointing at his hand, "I thought you meant a squirrel's hand."
BE THE SQUIRREL
intrepidity
(7,336 posts)I wonder why knowing the number of bones is important to a medical doctor. Does it happen in the course of a physician's career that he has a patient who is missing a bone, and the only way the doctor diagnosed it was by counting?
Seriously. Why did Hawkeye need to know how many bones are in the hand?
/off tangent
dilby
(2,273 posts)Be like the squirrel.
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Fla Dem
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Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Be The Squirrel!