Watch: Clever squirrel uses slinky to shoot chipmunk away from its food

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/14/watch-clever-squirrel-uses-sl.html

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can we not conflate cleverness and coincidence please?

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killjoy…

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Look, there are good rodents on both sides of Squirrel on Chipmunk violence.

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Build it and they will come.

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Seriously.

(heads off to Amazon to buy some slinkies…)

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I, for one, welcome our new Sciuridaen overlords.

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you mean Fine Rodents.

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Even so, that was a very good aim and launch.

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“Coincident squirrel uses slinky o shoot chipmunk away from its food”

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staged - fake news!

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Conscripted into service and certain of their doom, the untrained Distillery Brothers charge into battle fueled by fermented acorn courage.

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Or possibly the squirrel was trying to drag it’s food away from the annoying chipmunk but dropped it.
Squirrels are smart, but that does not appear to be the case here.

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Only 1st stage of escalation, comrade. Chipmunk to next rain Jarts down upon squirrel in retaliation.

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In my universe – the fun one – it was absolutely intentional.

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In my universe, Shoemaker–Levy 9’s encounter with Jupiter was followed by a booming voice intoning, “One hundred and ay-tee!”

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I’d say intention was involved - by whoever set this up.

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