The researchers believe the whispers might be “secret” alarm calls – that the squirrels’ predators cannot hear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
calling secret squirrel. come in secret squirrel.<\/p>\n
Ultrasonic communication is probably far more prevalent in the animal world than we know because, simply, we cannot hear it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
so when i get my transhuman ear upgrades, i’m going to be driven mad by all the screaming animals. great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
my neighborhood squirrels wave at me, but the bbc reports that they scream too. Squirrels emit ‘silent scream’ [bbc, july 28, 2004] The researchers believe the whispers might be “secret” alarm calls – that the squirrels’ predators cannot hear. calling secret squirrel. come in secret squirrel. the article also makes an important, if more general, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}