{"id":119885,"date":"2025-09-05T03:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119885\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:56:08","slug":"carnivorous-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119885\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnivorous . . . Squirrels?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nRecently, an older article I hadn\u2019t seen before was brought to my attention because of its very unexpected headline<\/a>: Scientists document carnivorous squirrels in California who hunt voles. Yes, you read that right! Some squirrels have started hunting smaller mammals!<\/p>\n

Squirrels are typically thought of as clever, furry little creatures, stealing nuts and birdseed from birdfeeders. No one pictures them stalking, killing, and then chowing down on a vole. And yet a group of researchers observed California ground squirrels in the California Bay Area doing just that. Researchers believe the carnivorous behavior is because the vole population \u201cboomed\u201d that year, with five to six times more voles available than normal. It appears the squirrels \u201ctook advantage\u201d of the population explosion to expand their diets.<\/p>\n

And apparently this isn\u2019t totally unique:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been accumulating evidence of one or two events within a species of a red squirrel taking a sparrow.\u00a0.\u00a0. They tend to.\u00a0.\u00a0. try to take chickens.<\/p>\n

Carnivorous squirrels are a good reminder of what happened to all of creation after Adam and Eve sinned.<\/p>\n

Carnivorous squirrels are a good reminder of what happened to all of creation after Adam and Eve sinned. Before sin, everything\u2014squirrels included\u2014was vegetarian, eating the plants and seeds God created (Genesis 1:30). But after Adam sinned, God cursed the ground, and all of creation began to groan. Animals began to eat one another, and today we still see unexpected examples of both carnivory (like with these squirrels) and herbivory (did you know there\u2019s a vegetarian spider<\/a>?). Both remind us of how God<\/a>\u2019s creation<\/a> was designed originally: as very good (Genesis 1:31).<\/p>\n

Yes, creation now groans because of sin\u2014right down to the California ground squirrels! We have to remember that we must build our thinking on God\u2019s Word beginning in Genesis to understand we are not looking at the world as God made it, but at the world he made that now suffers from the effects of the fall.<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
\n
Ken<\/p>\n

This item was written with the assistance of AiG\u2019s research team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, an older article I hadn\u2019t seen before was brought to my attention because of its very unexpected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-119885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}