The Malabar Giant Squirrel (Ratufa indica), aka Indian Giant Squirrel, is a huge motherfucker, with a body length of up to 14 inches and a tail length of up to 2 ft.
They are important seed dispersers in a variety of Indian forest types, and are well known for smacking the taste out of your mouth for looking at them the wrong way. Keep they name out of your mouth if you know whats good for you. They ride wild boar into battle, and favor the spiked club as a weapon.
photographs: AtlasObscura and Amara Bharathy
I want to know MORE! We have Fox squirrels in Florida but we’ve devastated (aka developed) most of their natural habitat so they aren’t as common as they once were. Their body length ranges from 16 – 29 inches and their tails are from 7 to 14 inches long. I once saw one on a tree trunk in the late 60s. Stunning!
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