[0371] Predator-Prey Relationship
└ posted on Thursday, 26 April 2012, by Novil
Have you already read the news entry about the Sandra and Woo fanart contest 2012 (with prize money)?
- Sid: Thank you for saving my life.
- Ruth: Think nothing of it. Helping other squirrels goes without saying.
- Sid: You, uh…, have a gun?
- Ruth: Sure. I need it for hunting.
- Sid: You hunt? Other animals?? To eat them???
- Ruth: Yep. It was time to break through the ossified predator-prey relationship. That’s why I only eat certain animals.
- Sid: Such as?
- Ruth: Mostly large predators. I’m carnivorous level 5. I only eat animals standing at the top of the food chain.
But… isn’t the definition of being at the top that they can’t be hunted and eaten by any other animals?
A squirrel’s eating flesh? Now that’s the time you should run. Funny how they look so different. Can anyone distinguish the species?
If that squirrel really wants to hunt and eat whoever is on top of the food chain, we should all stay inside.
@ Frank: Not if you have a weapon
Vat a tveest!
This squirrel… is nuts.
I’m reminded of this old news story from 2005… http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4489792.stm
She probably got the derringer out of some randoms coat pocket.
Pffft, she’d already be full with one finger.
She’s trying to reverse the natural order concerning predator and prey…
The last time a wildebeest tried that, he got blown to Kingdom Come!
Sid. Buddy. Go warn Shadow now!
Break through the ossified predator-prey relationship? You’re going to break your digestive system. >:=p>
Personally, I’d say that having turned the tables on those higher up the food chain, the very last thing you’d want to do is ingest carnivore flesh. Talk about allowing them to strike back from beyond the grave – Montezuma’s revenge would be the least of it!
If a squirrel with a gun comes to my house I swear to god I’m hiding in a corner with a pocket knife for the rest of my life.
Hmm, this kinda rationalizes my sister’s fear of squirrels.
andreas wrote:
Actually, most squirrels are omnivores eating mostly nuts, insects and the occasional bird egg. If times are tough, bird chicks and amphibians. I’ve seen chipmunks dine on toads.
As for species, there are three sub-species of “Pine Squirrel” in North America: North American Red, Douglas and…drat can’t remember the third, but it kind of rare and located in a very small range. Your guess is good as mine. By the way, the red one comes in shades of red through medium brown and has the widest range of the three.
@ BobisOnlyBob:
is this a terrible point to interject a ‘soviet russia’ joke?
Her story seems too far fetched (even for a comic with talking animals).
My guess is that she’s only joking with Sid. His look in the last panel is priceless 🙂
(and maybe breaking the 4th wall, the way his looking at readers thinking: “what did I get myself into now?” 😉
Uh oh, I’m sensing a potential role reversal here…
I now just thought of something: how does Ruth fire that gun without getting sent flying backwards? Even a revolver has some kick to it, and Ruth’s just a squirrel!
Love her neckerchief. :3
@ Alexander B:
“Them derringer bullets are WEAK!”
“POWERFUL weak.”
OMG! Everyone lock ur doors! theres a new predator in town, and it’s called the PINE SQUIRREL!!!
What if that pine squirrel eats Woo and Shadow?!?!?!
Instinct, small stature, and the power to project metal hundreds of fps at anything it wants to kill. How’s that for an apex predator? XD
Way to go Sid, if you play your cards right you can get yourself a femme fatale.
I think woo and shadow are safe. She said TOP of the food chain. Like bears maybe? Unless she means her food chain.
Sid fell asleep didn’t he?
Figures, Sid finds the only insane lady squirrel in the forest.
I don’t know, Sid. Your new friend seems kinda ruthless to me.
I honestly expected a Texan mouse
Beautiful reference to The Simpsons.
Si, Slowpoke…he pack a gun.
That is AWESOME! This comic just got 100% more badassed!
@ andreas:
Um, the previous strip said she was a Pine Squirrel.
@ BobisOnlyBob:
Dude, I don’t know how you came across this new story, but that’s insane, and I would be scared to be in that village.
@ WolfieMario:
That is actually quite funny considering the fact that her name is Ruth. XD
aiwe wrote:
В советском Россия белка сосенки ест вас. (Sorry I couldn’t help myself)
Hey a gun loving female squirrel! wow that’s the gal for me >;) Go for it Sid!
Where does she get bullets for that? Hunters that use ammunition must replenish sooner or later. What, she has her own bullet factory?
What now seems like a funny unexpected aspect of this new character/possible love interest might turn out to be a serious problem, since both Shadow and Woo and Sandra are atop of the food chain. Hmm, I’m now imagining a battle to the death between Ruth and Larisa..
This gal scares me.
@ HardWearJunkie:
she got a reloader at cabela’s…
She scares me a little…..
Yeah, let’s hunt those wolves, I’m ttly a squirrel, not a fox or anything, ttly…a….squirrel :I
O got living proof of what she says, i SAW a squirrel trying to eat a snake!!!!!! o-0
I love her. FIGHT THE SYSTEM! Don’t let old Mother Nature tell you what to do!
BURN THE BRA! etc… etc…
Marry he, and you are safe
Da fuq? We are soon to be hunted by squirrels.
We have cockatiels as pets, and the “How to care for your cockatiel” books all say that they’re strictly seed eaters. I have several pictures of one of our little guys chomping into a steak that’s bigger than he is, and obviously enjoying it. I have this mental image of a flock of several hundred ‘tiels descending on a hapless cow and ripping it to pieces …
@ Frank:
That would kinda mean that they’re immortal. They don’t really have any ‘natural enemies’ that hunt them, but sure they CAN be hunted and eaten.
Oh, that does not sounds too good, because there are 2 foxes in this forest and one of the foxes is his friend, I have fellings that this hunting Squirrel may try to hunt tham.
WHAT A FUCKIN WARRIOR >:D