From the Vault: More Squirrels Eating Meat
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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. It is Saturday, so we have a vault episode for you. This is gonna be more squirrels eating meat. I think the original publication title was Squirrels, The Return. This originally published 1-2-2025. This is where we're picking up on a topic we discussed in past episodes about research into to what degree squirrels eat meat and do they hunt? Well, find out.
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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And I am Joe McCormick. And today we are coming at you with the return of Squirrels to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. If you are newer to the show and your memory does not go back this far... Uh, we, what year was it? Was it in 2018 that we did a pair of episodes on squirrels that, that turned out to be real fan favorites and I'll say host favorites too. We, we think about squirrels, uh, quite often and I've never really thought about them the same way ever since we did those, those shows. That's right. They were quite popular, talking about squirrels, their history, human and squirrel interactions, and what exactly squirrels eat. Yes. One of the big revelations from our research hall for those episodes was squirrels.
was about, well, I don't know, I was going to say the darker side of squirrels, but I don't know, it's not dark, it's just nature. It's the more violent side of squirrels, the more carnivorous side of squirrels. The thing most people don't think of when they think of squirrels, which is scavenging meat from dead animals, attacking baby birds in their nests, maybe even preying on their own kind sometimes, just squirrels eating of the flesh. Yeah, yeah. And a lot of this breaks down just to the basic idea that squirrels are more complex than a lot of people give them credit for.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–11:02
2
What new evidence prompted a return to the squirrels-eating-meat story?
11:02–36:46
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How does the Journal of Ethology paper document California ground squirrels hunting voles?
36:46–47:30
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What is the 'ecology of fear' and how does it relate to predator–prey behavior?
47:30–1:14:57