What "omnivore" really means

[urbpan]

found on lj image search, on some russian person's journal. anyone know the original source? It looks like an eastern gray squirrel and a house sparrow to me.

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[teratologist.livejournal.com]

Omnivore nuthin'. That squirrel has eaten the bird's brain. That squirrel is a zombie.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

They eat the brain because that's where the power of flight is.

[teratologist.livejournal.com]

Flying zombie squirrels?

I vote that we surrender now and hope they kill us quickly in their mercy.

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Are you saying that squirrel is really Sylar in diguise???

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Hooray! You got my reference!

(and Alexis says "there's no evidence that Sylar is eating the brains!")

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, the common theory is that yeah, he's eating them. But I don't buy that, either. Probably because that is just so icky I don't like to think anyone would do it, even a fictional, power-mongering mutant like Sylar. I think he is extracting the powers from the brains, but I don't think he's eating them. If he is, ew!!!

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Also, that makes the squirrel 'Flyman!'

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

yay for Heroes!! :)

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Yay!! I was hoping that's what he was hinting at in his brain-eating comment. If not, I was totally prepared for a 'what the fuck?' reply. ;)

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

well, i can't say for sure what he was hinting at but that seems most likely. either than, or just plain ol' zombies.

[frederic.livejournal.com]

We bought this vintage Victorian print about a year ago at an antiques shop:


The original is from 1864 by Sir Edward Henry Landseer although ours is probably from 1903 which is the date on the newspaper backing in the frame. Squirrels, especially the red squirrel, are well known birder-eaters although more often it's the young and the eggs they find and devour.

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

That is totally appropriate decor for a nursery.

[frederic.livejournal.com]

In hunting out the artist name after purchasing the print, I found one description which innocently described the print as, "It depicts two squirrels communing with a song bird." Another site had the title of the piece as "A Piper and Pair of Nutcrackers". Both of which are seemingly appropriate for a nursery if you never realize that the peanuts have beaks (as the shop clerks at the antiques shop never realized).

[coolmajaka.livejournal.com]

Wicked cool. Funny how hunger makes an omnivore of us all.

[by-steph.livejournal.com]

Especially cows. They'd eat you if they got the chance.

[drocera.livejournal.com]

Holy heck!!

[montacute.livejournal.com]

is it just me, or... does it seem like this might have been manipuated with photoshop? there's something about the tone variations and, perhaps, artifacts in the snow below the bird's body that makes me wonder.

[mellawyrden.livejournal.com]

I didn't know squirrels ate dead birds!!

Though, there are plenty of birds who wouldn't hesitate to eat a dead squirrel. Is this some kind of come-uppance? or perhaps the morbid result of a brawl at the local bird-feeder that went horribly wrong.

Eeeewww.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall something about a squirrel--I don't remember if it was a red or grey--eating a chipmunk in one of Gary Paulsen's books.

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

At the Virginia Living Museum some of my co-workers saw a grey squirrel eating a bird that had died (after flying into a window). The ones on UF campus used to dumpster dive. I always found it very amusing to see a squirrel up in a tree eating a slice of pizza. =D

[droserary.livejournal.com]

A news 2005 story for ya:

Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog'

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

*nods* watched two lovebirds at the zoo tearing a mouse apart once. And wild budgerigars are cannibalistic.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

Keen! Sometimes nuts just don't fill that craving...

I have a photo of a cow nonchalantly eating a bunny, if you want to see it *g*

[deathling.livejournal.com]

I KNEW they were evil!!!

[lotus75.livejournal.com]

I once poked my head into an Aspen in the Sequoias and witnessed this sight first hand. Like two feet away from my head. I have never viewed these furry little creatures as "cute" since then.

[lynsage.livejournal.com]

oh my dear holy lord.

[g-weir.livejournal.com]

Clearly the squirrel has invented the bird-a-phone. Loop 'feels so good' over the photo and see if I'm wrong.