Mason Inman - science journalist

2007-06-16, 10:31:34

From Reuters:

BERLIN - An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.

The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said Thursday.

With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off.

And this was just the beginning of the carnage. So why did it do it?

The [police] spokesman said experts thought the attack may have been linked to the mating season...

If this is how squirrel mating works, I feel bad for the other squirrels.