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[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago

TIL some folk have never seen a European Red Squirrel and think they're Polish

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 19 points 10 months ago

Red squirrels that live in poland are polish. The species name can be whatever, if it eats and sleeps in poland wilds its gonna be polish

[-] Sunfoil@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure, I think we need to see It's papers...

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Calm down Adolf

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Papers please

[-] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

You can tell cos they speak Polish.

[-] Diasl@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It was the Lonsdale slip ons that made me realise it was Polish.

[-] AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

I mean, Poland IS in Europe so I'm afraid this title is pedantically correct.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago

I got this off Bluesky. No, squirrels in North America are mostly grey or black, and the red ones we do have in woodsy areas definitely don't have these ears.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

It's a European red squirrel mate, I promise. The biggest population I've seen is on King Charlie's Balmoral estate in Scotland

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yep they're also all over the place in France

[-] nodsocket@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Wrong. This is a Polish Squirrel and you can tell because of its straight ears.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 15 points 10 months ago

Swede here, this looks just like a normal squirrel we have here

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

My pappaw would probably say it's so their head doesn't get stuck in the pickle jar or something. Classic Pappaw.

[-] Dangy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

All the better for gerkin jerkin'

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 10 months ago

Non-polish squirrels have gay ears.

[-] Eylrid@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Straight squirrels have polish ears

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago
[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Cute redhead eating nuts

[-] kbotc@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Never seen that one either!

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

If this squirell is this friendly and trusts people this much you must be in the Park Łazienkowski in Warsaw.

[-] rab@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

These are all over Europe

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