Bunnies and squirrels

vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Is it possible for them to mate and produce offspring?

I ask because there is a rodent type animal that hangs out in my 'hood. It is either a short-eared, tree-climbing bunny; or a short-tailed, plump, hopping squirrel. I see him every day but can't get close enough to really scope him out because I always have Apollo with me.

At first I thought he was a young bunny with undeveloped ears - then I saw him scamper up a tree and start leaping around the branches.

It's weird.
 
Larry Gude

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vraiblonde said:
Is it possible for them to mate and produce offspring?

I ask because there is a rodent type animal that hangs out in my 'hood. It is either a short-eared, tree-climbing bunny; or a short-tailed, plump, hopping squirrel. I see him every day but can't get close enough to really scope him out because I always have Apollo with me.

At first I thought he was a young bunny with undeveloped ears - then I saw him scamper up a tree and start leaping around the branches.

It's weird.
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It is the relatively rare Eastern Gray Sqrabbit. Thought to be extinct in most of the Eastern US, paleontologists have had the pleasure of finding a few examples and, thus, the ability to study them more deeply than via mere skeletal and fossil remains.

At present, the general consensus seems to be that it evolved over some millions of years as natures somewhat hermaphroditic response to the eternal question...


..."what's up doc?"
 
desertrat

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Larry Gude said:
It is the relatively rare Eastern Gray Sqrabbit. Thought to be extinct in most of the Eastern US, paleontologists have had the pleasure of finding a few examples and, thus, the ability to study them more deeply than via mere skeletal and fossil remains.

At present, the general consensus seems to be that it evolved over some millions of years as natures somewhat hermaphroditic response to the eternal question...


..."what's up doc?"
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:killingme

"Be vewwy quiet, I'm hunting sqwabbits."
 
desertrat

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vraiblonde said:
Is it possible for them to mate and produce offspring?

I ask because there is a rodent type animal that hangs out in my 'hood. It is either a short-eared, tree-climbing bunny; or a short-tailed, plump, hopping squirrel. I see him every day but can't get close enough to really scope him out because I always have Apollo with me.

At first I thought he was a young bunny with undeveloped ears - then I saw him scamper up a tree and start leaping around the branches.

It's weird.
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No can do. Squirrels do a lot of hopping though and like malice said, could be one that lost part of his tail. Yoda came within a couple inches of catching one of this years batch of squirrels yesterday.
 
DEEKAYPEE8569

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vraiblonde said:
Is it possible for them to mate and produce offspring?

I ask because there is a rodent type animal that hangs out in my 'hood. It is either a short-eared, tree-climbing bunny; or a short-tailed, plump, hopping squirrel. I see him every day but can't get close enough to really scope him out because I always have Apollo with me.

At first I thought he was a young bunny with undeveloped ears - then I saw him scamper up a tree and start leaping around the branches.

It's weird.
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"Squunnies?" :lol:
 
Merlin99

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vraiblonde said:
Is it possible for them to mate and produce offspring?

I ask because there is a rodent type animal that hangs out in my 'hood. It is either a short-eared, tree-climbing bunny; or a short-tailed, plump, hopping squirrel. I see him every day but can't get close enough to really scope him out because I always have Apollo with me.

At first I thought he was a young bunny with undeveloped ears - then I saw him scamper up a tree and start leaping around the branches.

It's weird.
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Maybe somebody misplaced a pika
 

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luvmygdaughters

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vraiblonde said:
Is it possible for them to mate and produce offspring?

I ask because there is a rodent type animal that hangs out in my 'hood. It is either a short-eared, tree-climbing bunny; or a short-tailed, plump, hopping squirrel. I see him every day but can't get close enough to really scope him out because I always have Apollo with me.

At first I thought he was a young bunny with undeveloped ears - then I saw him scamper up a tree and start leaping around the branches.

It's weird.
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Found this on yahoo. :whistle:

Can A Rabbit And A Squirrel Mate?

I did not believe that they could mate either. However I live in Pa. While gardening I stumbled across something I thought was a mix of both. I seen it for several weeks and then layed a trap. When I caught it I took it to the vet and they ran a DNA test. After a few hundred dollars and ALOT of time on the phone with the lab they confirmed....it was! I was shocked. We named him squnny and he lives in my back yard.
 
vraiblonde

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luvmygdaughters said:
Found this on yahoo. :whistle:

Can A Rabbit And A Squirrel Mate?

I did not believe that they could mate either. However I live in Pa. While gardening I stumbled across something I thought was a mix of both. I seen it for several weeks and then layed a trap. When I caught it I took it to the vet and they ran a DNA test. After a few hundred dollars and ALOT of time on the phone with the lab they confirmed....it was! I was shocked. We named him squnny and he lives in my back yard.
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:yahoo:

Shhhhh...be vewwy vewwy quiet....
 
idiganthro

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Sure it wasn't a glimpse of a smallish groundhog? We see them in trees where I work fairly often. Trees with some "lean" to them, not straight ones.
 
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