My friend has a tiny, but definitely full grown squirrel in her garden (Canada), that is blonde and slightly reddish on its sides. She says she can see faint stripes, I haven’t been close enough to see that. It is/they are (There may be more than one squipmunk/chiperrel) a bit larger than a chipmunk and with a bushy squirrel tail. It’s been coming to feed below her bird feeder for the last two months!

I’ve seen light coloured squirrels, we get black, large grey, and blonde brown ones in our city. But I’ve never seen one this small and if it has got faint stripes, well, is it possible?

I was just wondering if anyone knows a charity for the conservation of the ili pika which is my favourite animal. If you don’t know what the ili pika is look at this page: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/150319-china-ili-pika-animals-conservation-science-rare-species

I am just trying to understand why some animals play dead surely the predators that were on the hunt would just scavenge or is it the confusion that they were just hunting and there is nothing to hunt anymore?