red squirrel rope bridge from cross mating Watch Video
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Description: This video was made to illustrate that squirrels can easily and very quickly run over a rather thin rope (in this case a banister rope), and therefore can easily use a rope bridge (with a usually somewhat thicker rope) to cross a road. Here a mum red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) and her youngster were lured with bait over a rope that was hung in a forest patch next to a road. Whether squirrels will actually use a rope bridge over a road will depend on all kinds of factors. Since squirrels are ter
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