The Squirrel Project: Problem Solving Abilities of Squirrels

The goal of this project is to provide an informative and humorous look at how squirrels solve increasingly difficult obstacles in my backyard. The Squirrel Project was inspired by a BBC television show entitled "Daylight Robbery" and its more originally titled sequel "Daylight Robbery II” - Comments Welcome!!!

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Squirrelman



You see that batman!!!!
Video to come

Batman Begins

With all this hype over the new film Batman Begins I must point out that flying squirrels and bats are not the same animal, cousins, or even relatives. Bats can’t even fly like flying squirrels. Bats are somewhat retarded. Well unintelligent would be better description of a bat. Why would you use sonar to navigate? Imaging diving your car making clicking and chirping noises? How would you listen to the radio? Squirrels can drive an listen to the radio.…

Batman Begins may be a great film but if there were a “flying squirrels man” surely he would kick Batman’s ass. There’s not contest. Batman can’t see!!!! People ask me Dr. Marmen so why didn’t they make a Squirrel man comic book? It’s because they are scared, too much power I say – they have no kryptonite except the sound of traffic. They seen to be drawn to that.


The cast looks good

Cast overview, first billed only:
Christian Bale.... Bruce Wayne/Batman
Michael Caine.... Alfred
Liam Neeson.... Ducard
Katie Holmes.... Joey Potter


Links
http://www.eagames.com/official/batman/batmanbegins/us/home.jsp
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372784/
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/batman_begins/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/batman_begins/

Success

Day 18 - 5:13 AM
Success!!!!

I have gained the squirrels’ trust. I can now make the chish-tish sound (as noted in my first book) to notify them when food will be provided. The squirrels are allowing me to fully train them. This new training will be “consequence training”; it consists of the squirrels pulling small balls attached to stings. If they pull the balls in the correct order they will get and enormous amount of food. If they don’t, then the platform that they are standing on will project them 22-27 feet in the air (tested with a 5 pound sand bag). The device that is used to launch them is attached to a floating arm. The reason for the floating arm is that when the platform is trigger based on the incorrect solution of ball pulling is so the platform will spin the squirrel to disorientate it when in flight.

This will teach the squirrel not to do that. When they fall and hit the ground a small bell will ring. The bell sound will be used in later experiments.

Video and Images to come.