Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/04/dig-this-psychedelic-squirrel.html
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Similar to the way flamingos get their pink coloration from eating shrimp, these squirrels get their psychedelic coloration from eating hippies.
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Someone was definitely getting creative with the color balance; they’re clearly a lot more subtle in real life:
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Still quite beautiful. Perhaps more so.
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I’m upset that i never knew this awesome beautiful animal was a thing until just now. I could have been enjoying its technicolor splendor this whole time.
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Squirrels of Paradise.
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I want them in my yard, but my cats would make short work of them.
It makes the squirrel I saw the other day, with a gray body and reddish-orange tail, look positively pedestrian.
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Where do they forage for food? Coachella?
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I was afraid they lived downstream from the dye factory and drank what they thought was Kool-Aid!
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Did you miss the “giant” part of the name? Adults are over 3 feet long and weight almost 5 lbs.
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LOL yes, yes I did.
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Yeah, they’re beautiful - and amazing - animals as it is.
Since the rodents are omnivorous, I think there’s actually more of a danger that the squirrels would eat your cats.
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Also, a non-zero chance that your cats will think it’s cool and get some hair dye to join the trend… 
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Huh! That’s way more psychedelic than any Giant Squirrels I’ve seen… They’re usually a kind of reddish brown like this:
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I can’t believe no one has gone here, yet:
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