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Sciurine Knots Or 'Squirrel Kings'

Interesting video, thanks for posting it.

How do these things form in the first place? I genuinely can't imagine how on earth it happens.
 
having a long haired guinea pig (bagel) and routinely cutting his "tail" due to matter getting caught up in it i can see how 2, 3 or more actual tails of squirrels in proximity could become hopelessly entangled with the involvement of some agent or other ... rat tails seem a little too muscular however ... im imagining nothing short of an actual knot would bind them ...
 
Timble2 said:
I did too!

Perhaps Stephen King could work a Squirrel King into his next novel...
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Or a Stephen King king, where Stephen King is replicated through alien technology only it goes wrong and each Stephen is furry with a tail, and the tails all get tangled up together with tree sap and the Stephen King king is accidentally released and is spotted roaming the lanes of Maine...
 
Five hapless squirrel siblings have been caught in quite the bind in Wisconsin. Their fluffy tails became "hopelessly entangled" in their nest, leaving their fur tied together and matted with grass and plastic.

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Luckily for the juvenile creatures, the local Humane Society’s Wildlife Rehabilitation Center was on hand to unwind the impossible knot.

The team anesthetized the squirrels to keep them still and slowly unraveled the tails. According to the center’s Facebook page, it took about 20 minutes of careful cutting to disentangle the ball of fur. Initially, the center stated, it was impossible to tell where one tail began and another ended.

"Bit by bit we snipped away at the grass-and-plastic knot with scissors, being very careful to make sure we weren't snipping anyone's tail in the process," the post said. "We were increasingly concerned because all of them had suffered from varying degrees of tissue damage to their tails caused by circulatory impairment."

https://www.newsweek.com/squirrel-k...d-together-their-own-tails-discovered-1123422

maximus otter
 
What a lovely story! Sounds like they'll recover, if only with a bit of missing tail.
 
Squirrel king in Michigan

Cops found a ‘scurry of young squirrels’ at the base of a tree after rushing to the scene in Grand Blanc.

Pictures show the animals dangerously fused together after they became stuck shortly after birth.

Cops said they separated the seven ‘under the watchful eye of mama squirrel’.

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