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- kilodelta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i want to know how they say "CAR!!!! *****!"
- TwoSlick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"We've began to decipher the language of the little critters!"
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But not of the English language I guess. - warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bio major here. It is important that we research everything we can. The better we understand the world around us the better we understand ourselves. To all these morons who think we should spend money on "real things": if we cut funding to science we go back to the stone age. Without the space program alone there would be NO Internet, microwaves, computers (as we know them), and many other technological innovations that make the world a better place. As far as cancer research goes: I think there's a cure (also one for AIDS, Ebola, etc) and if the cure is presented then the cancer research industry is gone. Think how much money is dumped into cancer research, if everyone is cured one day then no more HUGE research money.
--How many people have died in the name of science? Religion? - ThePhilomath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The study does have further implications to do with mammal evolution and the inner workings of the squirrels as well as our own brains. For those disputing the research, your just a bunch of dorks.
It's behavioural research and can be quite beneficial. They're a team of zooligists! Why would they be looking for a cure to cancer? There's already thousands of people working on that! - skwhirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm very protective about my nuts!
- drpunkerz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1digg has waayyy to many young people. These comments are horrible. And by young I mean 15 and under. You can just tell.
- amitrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0looks like these Researchers have way more time on their hand!
- thad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0have we discovered their master plan for taking over the world?
- zone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0so that old lady at the park wasn't crazy at all.. :P
"siriusly".. when can we send them to war? - Arkz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol @ kilodelta
theres some mad ones in a huge tree on my street, when u walk under it they throw conkers at u lol, i once said to my friend i think they see us walking past and do it on purpose, and when i looked to the side one was on the edge of a branch staring at me :O as soon as i made eye contact it fled... im scared! - softmod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol...."Hare, an associate professor of zoology at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, added"
Guess what his next project is ganna be! - Kvetch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thank god Canadians know how to invest their fundings for research.
I can hardly count the number of ways a break through like this will give humanity. - xsecretfiles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wish they all talked like Conker!! he was sooooo cuuuuute
and Rabits should talk like the one on Conker too, like OMG that would be like soooo cute - meshgiath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0squeaker squeak squeak..umm. squeakum.
- zediker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I for one welcome our new squirrly overlords
- SubZ3r0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0squirrels are evil there plottin a huge army under ground preparing for an attack!
- rapeandruin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0at last!!!! i can speak with squirrels
- SuidAfrikaner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Don't get what the big deal is. Kronk spoke to squirrels years ago."
That occured to me too. Old news, no digg. LOL... - sulestis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0squirrels are awesome!!! d i g g !!!!
- jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here's Squirrel University!
http://www.squirrelnet.com/Squirrels/start.asp - Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"...squirrel vocalizations, which the researchers now believe constitute a complex language that is unique to the animals."
So squirrels can't chat with frogs, then. Good work figuring that out. - brickbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't get what the big deal is. Kronk spoke to squirrels years ago.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0May i be the first to sell a "I learned to speak squirrel and all i got was kidnapped and ensalved in their underground nut-mines" T-Shirt
- MacHarborGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what this article tells me is that if I send my pet bird out to get a squirrel in my yard, and I start chirping and chucking to alert the squirrel and it runs for cover and remains alive, that later this squirrel will look up to me and stop stealing my Honey Bunchs of Oats.
BRILLIANT :D Digg on this one - Optimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0neat. +digg
- beervolcano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Did anyone else think Mlton from Office Space? ...the married squirrels"
"I believe he said 'They were merry,' which makes more sense."
Actually, he DID say that they were married. I read something a while back about why he said that they were married, and apparently that was the only way that Milton could justify squirrels getting freaky. - Diadem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, maybe those squirrels can tell US to register their domain names, so they can get around those small hands.
Sorry, first thing that came to mind when I saw this. - fatsobob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I KNEW THE SQUIRRELS WERE PLOTTING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
- Galaeron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OK GB, we got a new terror threat rising. Deciphering what I could from the squirrels in my backyard they got WMD's. They are threatening our American way of life, and they're doing it in our backyards!
- Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And what do they talk about? Mostly their nuts.
- jerryknight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Did anyone else think Mlton from Office Space? ...the married squirrels"
I believe he said "They were merry," which makes more sense. - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Squirrels ad chirps to their warning calls to indicate a terrestrial predator... A chuck is like an exclamation point."
The red squirrel in my front yard gets out on the end of a branch and chucks furiously at me whenever I go out there, no chirps at all. This only confirms my suspicions that he has been cursing me.
I don't get no respect! Whatever happened to "hail mighty god species of this planet?" I don't even get "terrestrial predator" from the little bastard. Damn it, where's my BB gun! - aMMgYrP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0well Bubbles will be happy. (gosh, I really do miss powerpuff girls)
- withears, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Squirrel dictionary
1. Nuts
2. Run
3. Hide - borderpatrol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0interesting. Dont see the benifit, but whatever. Its not my tax dollars
- lws07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree- stop hating on the squirrels, ppl, they're cute and smart, apparently. Somebody get these clever critters some Nut-n-Honey.
- soulfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Conker is unavailable for comment.
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So stop persecuting those squirrels already.
- tech_101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you read the article, it's the Richardson Ground Squirrel that they're researching (the gopher, as it's called around here). The article is kind of misleading in that sense, these aren't the squirrels with the bushy tails that you see in the park.
- warmonger48, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok borderpatrol (I say we need a 50 foot, above and below ground, electrified fence with armed guard) we'll just spend your tax dollars giving the rich tax breaks...
- beast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Squeak squeaken squeaker
- znxster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0whistle chirp chuck chuck chuck chirp.. !
- AbaraiRenji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hare studies squirrels... i sense a conspiracy!
- agentgray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Um...this has been done.
Emperor's New Grove, anyone? - nocre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No. Not in _ours_, Galaeron. In _yours_.
Admit it. You're harboring terrorists. I hope they gut you in your sleep for being a two-faced coward and ratting them out. Either way, your backyard will no longer exist once the missiles arrive. - a99tandem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0THIS MAKES ME VERY NERVOUS! Before you know it, we'll have squirrel labor instead of outsourcing to India and China! Bye bye towel-manufacturing job!
- rcomegys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They decoded prarie dog utterances a few years back, so this isn't entirely new. And at least with the prarie dogs, they couldn't reproduce the sounds, and there was no evidence fo creative language use. Much like with Coco the gorilla, who can sign to you in ASL, she can ask if she's hungry and she'll say "yes, give me banana", but if you ask how the weather yesterday made her feel, she'll not be able to respond. Still, it's decently cool.
- camtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0my grandparents figured this out a long time ago while sitting on their back porch throwing nuts...
- jcs_goog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes in Office Space Milton was talking about how the squirrels got married.
- borderpatrol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@warmonger48
I never said that we used our tax money for anything smart. But aleast we have big ass fences. We should get into Ginuess for that. -
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