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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Calm down Adolf

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can tell cos they speak Polish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yep they're also all over the place in France

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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