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Draft: Feeding squirrel

Submitted by aspark on Mon, 01/28/2019 - 20:08

A jar of walnuts is turned to its side on the lawn. A squirrel propels off of the side of the tree and lurches toward it. It is gray with brown in its tail and face. It also has sprinkles of white fur. It has a bushy tail, bent in the middle so that the bottom half flaps in the air. It suddenly stops and darts in the opposite direction. It turns and hesitantly approaches the jar of nuts again. It darts to the jar and grabs a walnut. It jumps far from the jar and nibbles on the nut using both of its hands. With the nut in his mouth, it climbs back up the tree. Just then, a second squirrel approaches the jar in quick, sudden movements and reaches its arm inside to grab a walnut. It squats next to the jar and nibbles on the walnut, similarly to the first squirrel. It then darts away, across the lawn, with the nut in its mouth. The way it moves is that it jumps forward using its back legs and lands on its front arms. It's like taking little jumps forward. The squirrel scurries up the tree. 

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