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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 1900980" data-attributes="member: 545">Umm...no.  I probably average about 5 minutes a day squirrel watching from my breakfast table.  I have well over a hundred hours of squirrel watching that says you are wrong.  Probably closer to two hundred hours.Squirrels freeze all the time.  It is a skill that every land mammal on the planet that is not a top shelf predator is very, very good at.  Freeze, move, move, freeze, move, freeze,... Since their beady little eyes are on the side of their head, there is absolutely no way of discerning what they are looking at.  They have roughly 300 degree vision.  A squirrel staring at you does not point his head towards you -- he keeps one eye on you with a sideways look.They also twitch and gesture weirdly all the time.  And chitter, especially if there are other squirrels or a bird they suspect might be interested in their hidden acorns is within sight.Young squirrels jump and dance around a lot.  They are practicing their skills.I just remarked to my wife two days ago I thought I just say a squirrel doing varmint yoga.  He was stretching his front lines.  Stretching?  Pointing?  Hard to say.Since an action takes in the ballpark of ~1 sec to complete from start to finish, would anyone have a second thought about  this normal behavior for a squirrel.It is not normal for a human to stop everything, stare, speak weird words, gesture peculiarly, especially in the middle of combat.  It is perfectly normal for a squirrel.</blockquote>

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