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Sorry for the late posting of this strip, but I have a cold.
- Ruth: Oh boy! I’ll be able to feast on this fat roast for days!
- Ruth: I’m afraid, though, that word will get around and I’ll have to give up on this part of the forest as hunting ground.
- Caption: Many years later.
- Header: Radio tracking: Large predators
- Scientist #1: Poisonous swamp gas?
- Scientist #2: Top-secret military base?
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Oh no, Mrs Honeysun was eaten by a grue.
Oh, and welcome dear reader to today’s comment section, please take this complimentary combat helmet.
Ignoring that a Squirrel would die from eating meat…
There’s no way that a single creature the size of Ruth could eat an entire bear in a few days, much less cause mass decline of Large Predator populations
@ Titan:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare
@ MidoriLuna:
Ruth would still count as an extreme version of Tarrare
@ Titan:
I suspect that map in the last panel isn’t showing a decline so much as an avoidance. Word “got around” as Ruth feared and now all the large predators stay away from that area. There are still plenty of predators if those overlapping dark areas are territory demarcations.
This is why it is good to have Auntie Ruth living on your tree.
Not for nothing, but….AAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! *runs away*
Didn’t expect that Ruth would kill Mrs. Honeysun. I thought she’d just rip some pieces off her back and scare her off.
Wow! she Mrs.Honeysun showed up what? twice in the story and now she has been written out of the story by being eaten.
I find that so funny.
Titan wrote:
Squirrels are generally fine eating meat (though I wouldn’t know about (nearly) exclusive carnivorous diets).
And of course Ruth couldn’t eat a bear in a few days – but she would have trouble, too, preserving much of the meat (presumably not having access to a fridge/freezer or some kind of chemical preservation method (salt, etc. – assuming that she would even like and it agreed with her)).
The population of predators (as @ BabylonRanger already pointed out) would be more influenced by fear/avoidance than more directly by predation. I would be curious, though, to see whether Ruth would migrate to new hunting grounds or change her diet.
@ Titan:
Squirells regularly chomp down on baby birds, bones and each other. They are omnivores, not herbivores.
627235 wrote:
It has been shown in the past that these animals have access to technology like television, it’s likely very plausible that she might have access to refrigeration.
The problem is that they’re tracking “Large Predators” – if instead they were tracking “Predators with large apetites”, they would be wondering why there was one covering about 9x the area…
@ Titan:
She got experience points and leveled up.
Next week : Mr. Honeysun’s revenge!!
I was expecting Mrs. Honeysun to say, “I was only kidding!”
@ Titan:
The map is showing predators /avoiding/ a section of the forest, not a mass extinction
*Looks at the first scientist*
Is that…. Techmo from Regular Show?
@ Titan:Funny thing, many supposedly herbivorous animals eat meat and/or bones. Deer have been known to kill and eat birds. Squirrels will and have eaten eggs, chicks and even baby rabbits when they can get them. Only some humans radically divide the available food into stuff they will and will not eat. Even carnivores have been known to eat fruits or nuts when hungry.
Hunting in the same spot all the time… seems weird…
MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS!
*squirrel sounds*
Wonder when the gluttony demon in her stomach’s going to make an appearance.
“Killer Squirrel” would be a strange twist for Hinamizawa, even for the games usual standards.
First and foremost, get better dear author, i feel ya, i cought a massive cold myself, what a great start into the year am i right?
Secondly, ouch, poor bear xD
@ PS2kid:
PS2kid wrote:
Uhh, dude… How do you expect her to take revenge? She’s dead and her left leg is nothing but bare bones.
JustThiSguY wrote:
That’s why it said MR. Honeysun’s, aka her husband.
Although I wouldn’t put it past this strip to have her ghost/undead body seek revenge.
so we’ve got a carnivorous Squirrel, all we need now is the Rabbit of Caerbannog
This is uncomfortably reminding me of the time a now ex-friend linked me to a My Little Pony slasher horror fic. I just- the dissonance is too great. The cutting off of her skin? Yeach, too close to that memory.
@ Titan:
After a large kill, you share it with your friends and relatives because this is the best use.
Looking at the comic again, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ruth actually finished the whole bear in a few days – she’s already done with an entire leg (which should outmass her by quite a bit by itself). I guess she just has a real appetite (and probably very inefficient digestion).
@ PS2kid:
OR her cubs assuming she has any.
Squirrels are omnivores. They eat meat and prefer it fresh. Stuff You Should Know (podcast) did 2 episodes on squirrels and they can be scary.
Get better soon, Novil.
And to think she was probably just getting back to Lily over her poor education of the cubs. http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/02/15/0761-bad-parenting/
@ Shio:
Let me guess, Cupcakes?
Gamesman wrote:
Only humans can afford to be choosy, because only humans can eat more than they need to for whole life even with limited diet.
@ TimesNewLogan:
POSSIBLY? Pinky Pie was the murderer. I made some stupid comment about how fanfic can’t traumatise me anymore because I’m Jaded. I was *wrong.*
Anyway yeah the tonal dissonance of this comic is a bit disturbing.
@ Gamesman:
There’s actually at least one documented case of them killing and starting to eat a dog during a particularly hard winter in Russia (iirc they were scared off by people mid-meal).
We had 3 people out sick at work yesterday, including the boss who lives halfway across the United States, so hearing about you being sick was a strange coincidence. This bug is REALLY getting around!
@ shazz_smifff:
She ate it.
It looks like I’ve missed something. A the beginning Ruth’s method of hunting large predators was based on firearms.
Now it becomes creepy, I think.
THIS ESCALATED WAY TOO QUICKLY
Holy shit. I can’t believe Miss honey son thought she could escape
Why is this particular squirrel so formidable? Is that explained in an earlier strip somewhere?
Also, Mrs. Honeysun appears to have been missing a fibula. Maybe that impeded her running?
Damn! That is stone cold. Don’t f*ck with squirrels, I guess.
@ jb:
She started out using a handgun somebody had dropped. Now she seems to get by with a knife and a terrifying reputation. I suppose she ran out of ammo?
That shouldn’t last long, because sooner or later she’s going to run into a more conventional predator who isn’t familiar with the reputation.
@ Brett Bellmore:
i remembered the comic about the gun, but I was hoping there was more to it than that. As it stands it’s just kind of absurd, in an annoying sort of way. (I’m reminded of the way that Jason Voorhees starts out as merely a deranged killer in the first Friday the 13th film, but is quickly promoted to a supernaturally unstoppable killing machine in the sequels).
@ Gamesman:
What you say is true, but it’s unusual behavior and typically indicates something is out of the ordinary. Deer, goats, or cattle will occasionally eat small mammals or birds, but this is something that’s done in response to a lack of calcium in their diet and if provided with adequate calcium they won’t do. Likewise, hypercarnivores like cats only eat plant matter if they’ve got some sort of dietary imbalance or they’re starving and desperate. In both cases, the animals have digestive systems that are poorly equipped to handle meat and plants, respectively. A squirrel like Sandy trying to survive on an all-meat diet would sicken and die quite quickly.
You can easily find videos on YouTube showing herbivores eating meat. Here is a compilation, which includes way too many primates (which everyone knowsare omnivores), but also cows, deer, giraffes, kangaroos, hippos, bunnies, and yes, a couple of squirrels. Unfortunately you have to sign in to YouTube to see it (parts are kind of gristly), but here is an unprotected video that is quite cute.
I think most animals will eat meat if they can get it, because it’s a high quality food that’s easily digested. I don’t think there are any nutrients in plants that you can’t also get from meat. I agree though that if your digestive tract is optimized for fibrous plant material an all meat diet is going to cause trouble.
jb wrote:
Protein-rich diet, plenty time to exercise and by now lots of experience