From Keir Shiels Twi**er feed:
“Dear Twitter, Have a photo of a red squirrel levitating a nut with his supreme mental powers pic.twitter.com/G1YgsOAy0G“
Squirrel prestidigitation
December 19, 2013 • 10:56 am
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The squirrel’s long claws look like the creepy finger nails of someone claiming powers of prescience.
Squirrels are clumsy though – more than once I’ve had them drop acorns on me from above. One even still had squirrel spit on them. I used to think they were throwing them at me but when you watch them, they drop them often.
I said “them” a lot. It’s my way of challenge people to consider the context. 🙂
I’ve seen squirrels fall out of trees,too. Kerplunk!
..creepy finger nails like Mr. Brown on the Simpsons.
…something wrong with *my* fingers or my brains these days… Mr. BURNS, for gawd’s sake!
Aww, it looks like the photographer caught it mid-sneeze.
That was my first thought. Or else it was saying grace.
“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
The force is strong in that one.
” And now, Skywalker, try and raise your ship”.
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
“I thought I recognized your foul stench when I was brought onboard.”
“As I have fores… oops!” [drops nut]
Kaaaa… Maaayyy…HHHHAA..Maaaaayy…HAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
There is no nut.
b&
I, too, immediately thought of Yoda when I saw that. That is a fantastic photo. It should be made into a poster, with your caption.
Yo-DAH Yo-DAH Yo-DAH!
Wow.
Come on. Everyone knows there’s no such thing as mental levitation.
The squirrel has magnetised its paws and the acorn, that’s all.
Also, magnets, how do they work?
LOL! 😀
I can just imagine the narration by Sir David Attenborough: “Now the force is what gives the squirrel its power. It is an energy field created by all living things.”
That would be awesome — a “Life on Tattoine” programme presented by Sir David, or “The Secret Life of the Norwegian Ridgeback,” or the like.
And I bet he’d get a kick out of it, too!
b&
Just proves that red squirrels are superior to their grey American cousins.
That rodent feat is something else but can’t match this – “Chuck Norris shows JC Van Damme how to do a proper split”!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcqPmjAkK3Q
Happy Days, Everyone! 😀
Many years ago, in Kenya, I took a series of photos of my Maasai friends doing the jumping dance. I clicked each time they were up in the air, and as they kept the same body and height position throughout, the series of photo made it look as if they were levitating. I actually fooled a few friends into believing that they were levitating!
Do you have anything already online that you could share? Sounds like fun!
Unfortunately, they were taken long before the digital age, and I haven’t scanned them – I have literally thousands of photographs, negatives and slides, and neither the time nor the energy to digitize them. I have quite a few of my non-African photographs digitized, some are even online, but none as spectacular as my Kenya photographs.