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07-09-2018 03:14 PM - edited 07-09-2018 03:15 PM
(special alert to @mistriTsquirrel)
Acrobatic squirrel does the SPLITS as it balances on the stalks of two flowers while foraging for food in Sweden
PUBLISHED: 10:25 EDT, 9 July 2018 | UPDATED: 14:27 EDT, 9 July 2018
They're known as the 'treetop acrobats' of the animal kingdom, but even these poses would startle most who admire the natural manoeuvres of the gymnast-like red squirrel.
Photographs taken in Sweden show a hungry little critter in Bispgarden who balanced between two lupine flowers in an attempt to reach out and grab its next meal.
It looks as if the squirrel is performing the splits as it clings onto stalks with the claws of its feet.
The shots were captured by Geert Weggen, a photographer who has been taking squirrel pictures for five years.
'The squirrels are searching for food and in this case I hang some food in the air in a bucket above the lupine flowers,' said the 49-year-old.
'These days, there are more than 12 wild red squirrels visiting my garden and I create scenes and sit mainly in my kitchen to photograph them.'
Geert said that after so many years of working in squirrel photography he knows just how to capture the perfect squirrel shot.
He said: 'My favourite images are the ones where he jumps down and where he shows his fingers.
'I have really good luck with getting great detail in the frame.'
07-09-2018 03:50 PM
Awesome (and cute!). Hope our squirrel friend sees these.
07-09-2018 03:57 PM
Sweet! I sort of remember being that limber and nimble once upon a time!
07-09-2018 04:06 PM
Oh, so adorable! Photo #8 looks like he/she is actually smiling.
07-09-2018 04:18 PM
Clearly this squirrel has been inspired by Miranda Esmonde-White's Classical Stretch videos.
Or it's just a bad case of Saturday Night Fever.
07-09-2018 04:38 PM
@feline groovy Thanks for posting!
Sure hope that squirrel managed to aged to grab a few nibbles.
All that work.
I was never that limber.
07-09-2018 04:55 PM
What a cutie!
07-10-2018 02:23 PM
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
07-10-2018 03:04 PM
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