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It may not be the Smithsonian Furry Air And Space Museum, but it’s a start. …Siberia, so Russian People’s Great Historic Furred Flight Ministry maybe.
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Those cute big dark eyes! It’s like they were dreamt up for cartoons.
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Soon it’ll be up there with friends.
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No Russian squirrel… but you do get Natacha and Boris, and that should be Godunov.
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Evolution, eh? Wonderful!
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Yes, but, and… I can never figure out why the first few generations of squirrels that tried to fly didn’t get selected out of the gene pool by plummeting to their deaths.
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I guess that it is like monkeys with typewriters; if you throw enough squirrels at a tree, eventually one will stick 
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… they don’t weigh very much, so they don’t necessarily die when they fall
Even a normal non-flying squirrel gets a sort of parachute effect from that big fluffy tail
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