Unfortunately a picture through a window screen, but I snapped a picture of this squirrel chomping on a bone whilst sitting on my deck railing.
Squirrel with a bone
Unfortunately a picture through a window screen, but I snapped a picture of this squirrel chomping on a bone whilst sitting on my deck railing.
6 Comments
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 91d
Functionally the same thing as a pet bird with a cuttlebone, it’s an easy calcium source.
Very metal, though!
twoBrokenThumbs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 91d
More likely because their teeth never stop growing they need to chew on hard objects to wear them down.
I've seen them chew on small rocks in my backyard, and right now I have one that keeps eating our plastic garden shovel and I caught her chewing on some decorative coral pieces we have in planters.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 91d
Maybe put some bones out for them.
Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 90d
No cooked bones though, they become brittle and crack/crunch into pointy shards.
jared@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 91d
They had a bone to pick with you.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 91d
Walking stick