Re: [californiadisasters] Re: A Lucky Squirrel Survives the La Brea Tar Pits

Yah, but they taste like bald eagle anyway.  

:-p

Rick

Tiny iPhone keypad + my fat thumbs = typos.  Sorry. 

On Sep 16, 2011, at 12:16 PM, "Douglas" <hippiblue@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Thank God, it wasn't a Spotted Owl.

--- In californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@...> wrote:
>
> A lucky squirrel survives the La Brea Tar Pits
> By *Bettina Boxall - Los Angeles Times
> *September 15, 2011 | 6:00 am
>
> The California Wildlife Center <http://www.californiawildlifecenter.org/> in
> Malibu has cleaned up its share of birds rescued from oil spills. But last
> month, a goo-covered squirrel arrived, freshly plucked from the La Brea Tar
> Pits <http://www.tarpits.org/>, the famous tomb of prehistoric animals.
>
> The young female fox squirrel was rescued by staffers at the nearby Los
> Angeles County Museum of Art <http://www.lacma.org/>who saw her struggling
> in the pool of tar. She went under, managed to pop back to the surface and
> then was lifted out with a stick.
>
> Once at the wildlife center, hospital manager Jo Joseph and animal care
> coordinator Christina Van Oosten attacked the black goop that coated the
> unrecognizable animal from head to claw tip. Their 90 minutes of scrubbing,
> first with mineral oil and then with a mixture of Dawn dish detergent and
> water, was recorded on video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87VAtwttayo>.
>
> The center kept the squirrel for two weeks to make sure she didn't grow ill
> from her dunking and then released her on the tar pit grounds, presumably
> the wiser.
>
> Source:
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/09/la-brea-tar-pits-squirrel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreenspaceEnvironmentBlog+%28Greenspace%29
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