This one's doing the rounds at the moment, you've probably already seen it. Funnily enough I have an old article on file (well, on my office wall) about a giant Red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris that attacked a bunch of cub scouts back in the 1980s.. it would have been about this size. The article was titled 'Tufty terror slashes sprogs' and was published in that most reliable of academic sources, The Sunday Sport. The author, if I remember correctly, was a Mr Ollocks, first name Bertie.
Thanks to Tony Butcher.
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Nice use of photography and toy soldiers. ;)
Thank you Sherlock.
Holy crap! Life-size Action Man!
G.I. Joe in action. They shouldn't have included the curb-stone in the shot, it gives away the scale.
Now that's just scary.
(wonder what it'd take for a squirrel species to get that big -- sequoia-and-savanna islands all to themselves?)
That's not a curb, it's a retaining wall!
Not sure about the yellow line though...
That's the middle of the road, obviously.
In fact, at first I thought it was a photo of an actual road, with the squirrel photoshopped in. The shadow above the tail looks quite suspicious! The resolution is just good enough that you can just see the faces are plastic, and only then did I notice the curbstone and the grass and the dandelions...
Are you referring to the black ticking on the tail fur, or the right rear foot?
The black ticking.
So... no one is going to comment on the fact that this picture makes light of death? Wow im not PETA but still this is unnecessary.
I thought this would be about some species of giant squirrel.
I'm sad now.
@Jonny Bo
Unnecessary? Well, sure, it's not strictly required, but people make light out of death all the time? How many cartoons and jokes have you seen involving people at the gates of heaven? All death jokes, every one. There's jokes set in funeral homes, hospitals, will readings, heaven, and hell. There are dead baby jokes, 9/11 jokes, and jokes for every natural disaster (famines, earthquakes, tsunamis, and more).
We all need to laugh at death a little, so lighten up.
that is a complete fake nice camera work guys
I am disappointed that you all drew the wrong conclusion from this picture. As the scale of the curb (which one savy reader noticed) indicates, this picture is evidence for not the world's largest squirrel, but for the world's smallest humans.
u got me at first but when i looked at the two men and the road i could it was not real