Carnivorous Vampire Squirrel

Carnivorous squirrel duration.

Carnivorous vampire squirrel. It turns out it was eating a bird. According to forest dwelling dayak hunters it attacks and kills deer to eat their stomach contents liver and heart. The bornean tufted ground squirrel became known as the vampire squirrel because of tales of it slashing the jugular veins of small deer.

According to bornean hunters however the tufted ground squirrel sometimes strays away from its usual fare in favor of a carnivorous approach hunters say the squirrels wait in low branches and drop onto the backs of passing muntjac. Squirrels are generally small animals ranging in size from the african pygmy squirrel and least pygmy squirrel at 10 14 cm 3 9 5 5 in in total length and just 12 26 g 0 42 0 92 oz in weight to the bhutan giant flying squirrel at up to 1 27 m 4 ft 2 in in total length and several marmot species which can weigh 8 kg 18 lb or more. But the first study of the animal s feeding habits has.

Fark squirrel seen hiding its nuts. My son ran up to his room to look at it through his window. Vampire squirrel that hunts deer.

The tufted ground squirrel also known by its latin name rheithrosciurus macrotis enjoys springing through trees eating giant acorns and communing with other squirrels. We came home and saw this vampire chipmunk up on a window ledge. A native of aracaju sergipe in brazil now in toronto to study and work brito had seen squirrels before.

Bornean carnivorous tufted ground squirrel also known as the vampire squirrel actually mainly eats one kind of seed. He didn t seem to notice we were. The squirrel is said to achieve this by waiting on low branches jumping on passing deer and biting their jugular veins to make them bleed to death.