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[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago (3 children)

TIL some folk have never seen a European Red Squirrel and think they're Polish

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Red squirrels that live in poland are polish. The species name can be whatever, if it eats and sleeps in poland wilds its gonna be polish

[–] Sunfoil@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure, I think we need to see It's papers...

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Calm down Adolf

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago
[–] cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can tell cos they speak Polish.

[–] Diasl@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It was the Lonsdale slip ons that made me realise it was Polish.

[–] AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

I mean, Poland IS in Europe so I'm afraid this title is pedantically correct.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I got this off Bluesky. No, squirrels in North America are mostly grey or black, and the red ones we do have in woodsy areas definitely don't have these ears.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's a European red squirrel mate, I promise. The biggest population I've seen is on King Charlie's Balmoral estate in Scotland

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yep they're also all over the place in France

[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Wrong. This is a Polish Squirrel and you can tell because of its straight ears.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Swede here, this looks just like a normal squirrel we have here