OAKLAND, CA \u2014 Squirrels in the Bay Area appear to be a different breed. <\/p>\n
Researchers in 2024 found squirrels in East Bay Parks had started munching on rodents<\/a> for food. Then, one very aggressive squirrel made headlines last year<\/a> when it attacked and hospitalized two people in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n Now, another Bay Area squirrel is getting some attention, this time on the popular app Nextdoor, where Oakland resident Scott Gottesman captured the bushy-tailed animal putting in some extra work for food. <\/p>\n The video, which has amassed hundreds of likes on Nextdoor since being posted last week, shows a squirrel in Gottesman’s backyard grabbing a pole with one hand while reaching for food from a feeder with the other. <\/p>\n The squirrel then works its way down the pole smoothly before jumping off-screen. <\/p>\n “That’s some advanced pole dancing,” one viewer commented on the video. “Nothing like a little squirrel pole dancer!” another said. “Gotta work to get the treats! Cute.”<\/p>\n Others said the squirrel should audition for Cirque du Soleil, while others nicknamed it “Cirque du Squirrelai.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, CA \u2014 Squirrels in the Bay Area appear to be a different breed. Researchers in 2024 found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-645807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}