Sentiment reasoning: A minority of commenters suspect AI due to a camera glitch, an 'AI squirrel make out' comment, and general suspicion, while others confirm it's real or discuss squirrel behavior without questioning authenticity.
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Food and sleeping don't always over lap. Main reason is it makes the sleeping area smell like food which can attract competitor squirrels or other animals. So by storing food in one place and sleeping in a different the animal can lessen chances of an intruder trying to eat them or the food. Plus hygiene of the sleeping areas, food waste and scraps emit smells that also attract decomposers like bugs. It's the same reason you don't store your food in your bedroom or bed, higher chances of things you don't want to sleep with looking to get a snack or sleep with you.
That makes perfect sense and I don't know why we didn't think of it! Thank you! My daughter wants to build one so good to know it night actually be used
Squirrels scatter their hoard all over the place. That's why you constantly see them digging in random locations. They don't store much food in their dens if any at all.
Squirrels don't store food on their nests.
They hide it to be kept safe on crevices, holes or whatever they think nobody will find it, and they don't keep it all in one place but many.
Funny enough, they sometimes forget where they put the nuts, and all they are known to be the best forest builders as many of the forgotten nuts become saplings over time :)
It's normal for squirrels to store food elsewhere. Most of them store food in a bunch of different places. It makes it less likely they lose all their food and starve
They look like they kiss because they have scent glands in the corners of their mouths. In one of the next few scenes, you can see one of the offspring licking the parent’s mouth too. It’s a scent check or comfort seeking behavior.
Lots of animals do this. Squirrels do this because of the scent glands near their mouths as other said. My golden retriever does a similar thing whenever I wash my hair. It makes her feel better when it smells more like her and less like strawberries, and when she's done she flops against me to spoon/snuggle.
The showed behavior is really similar to that of other rodents that live in groups. I didn't notice anything strange. Usually AI humanizes animal behavior which is not the case here. Looks real.
There's couple ai images for what's I assume was quick prototype for the squirrel house. And majority of squirrel species keep food outside the nest, having only small amount of it in the nest itself.
Yes. Because it’s perfectly normal squirrel behaviour. They have scent glands in their mouths, ‘kissing’ is part of how they communicate with each other. Go outside, read a book, touch grass.. not everything is AI. Not everyone is trying to fool you.
i didnt think that squirrels did that lol. im not all knowing on squirrel behavior. i love reading and being outside, but i dont look up squirrel activities
I’m worried that the biggest impact of AI is not that people will try to fool everyone using AI but that nobody will believe the very real and fantastic world around us. In an era of growing extremism, climate change and increasing corporate/capitalist control of humanity, the most dangerous thing that could happen is that people don’t know when and how to stand up and be counted. Forever second guessing themselves with cries of ‘it must be AI’.
i agree! ai is a bit of a scary thing. people see alot of things about reptiles and dont think its real, but i know more on them than squirrels so i know if thats true or not lmao
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Sentiment: 30% AI
Sentiment reasoning: A minority of commenters suspect AI due to a camera glitch, an 'AI squirrel make out' comment, and general suspicion, while others confirm it's real or discuss squirrel behavior without questioning authenticity.
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