Urban Nature Pictures 12/07

[urbpan]

Eastern gray squirrel with patch of fur missing.


Bonus Franklin Park sunset.

Comments

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Patch of fur missing and the skin beneath looks suspiciously like the work of a Squirrel Bot (Cuterebra emasculator)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't surprise me. I caught a rat with a cuterebra in about the same location.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

btw- check out my FB for a fascinating (if grisly) vid of a Black Caiman making the unwise decision to bite an Electric Eel...

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

our squirrels are SO FAT this year, like this guy, the rolls of fat almost bury their faces, I have never seen anything like it.