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| Cairoi Posts: 638/3807 |
How can people be "skeptical" of this? There is a disease that can infect squirrelsm you know. Called "rabies". I'd never put anything past anyone.
Truth is stranger than fiction. |
| WhiteRose Posts: 639/1461 |
I'm a bit skeptical myself, but I wouldn't put it past them if things were really bad, such as a shortage of all their food sorces, which I very likely doubt. They would first proably try and search in other areas for food before going to the extreme of attacking an animal much bigger than them, even if they did attack in a group. |
| Belial Posts: 144/647 |
The site is definately real, just look at the other articles on it. Just found one about Rosa Parks.
Anyway, that's a creepy lookin' squirrel. Very mean looking. It's no wonder it attacked a dog. About the pine cone thing- there are seeds/nuts in pine cones. |
| Cyro Xero Posts: 1105/1778 |
Yeah, I looked at both the URL and images. It doesn't convince a whole lot that it is real, although I'll just assume it is. In this day and anybody can make a fake news site look real with enough work. |
| 01001000 Posts: 392/944 |
Originally posted by Cyro Xero Did you even look at the image of BBC news or even the url?? All I really have to say is that, that is freakin' awesome. |
| Cyro Xero Posts: 1102/1778 |
Ehhhhh....
I'm a bit "sceptical" of this article. Yes, there was a mispelling, not that I was looking for one. The idea of a squirrel attacking a dog seem illogical. The idea of several squirrels attacking a dog in unison seem even more fake. BUT if it really did happen, then maybe there is more to them than we know. A pine cone shortage? That can happen? And here I thought squirrels ate only acorns and nuts. The never did mention how big the dog was. Maybe it was possible had it been a small one, but not a biggie. Is this one of those fake news sites, or is the content real? |
| Kaijin Surohm Posts: 913/1852 |
The article is here
Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog' Local people suggest hunger is driving squirrels to extremes Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report. Passers-by were too late to stop the attack by the black squirrels in a village in the far east, which reportedly lasted about a minute. They are said to have scampered off at the sight of humans, some carrying pieces of flesh. A pine cone shortage may have led the squirrels to seek other food sources, although scientists are sceptical. The attack was reported in parkland in the centre of Lazo, a village in the Maritime Territory, and was witnessed by three local people. A "big" stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked, reports say. "They literally gutted the dog," local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. "When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them." Mikhail Tiyunov, a scientist in the region, said it was the first he had ever heard of such an attack. While squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds' nests, he said, the idea of them chewing a dog to death was "absurd". "If it really happened, things must be pretty bad in our forests," he added. Komosmolskaya Pravda notes that in a previous incident this autumn chipmunks terrorised cats in a part of the territory. A Lazo man who called himself only Mikhalich said there had been "no pine cones at all" in the local forests this year. "The little beasts are agitated because they have nothing to eat," he added. |
