They won't let me embed the video so you have to CLICK HERE to see it, but those of you who are squirrel lovers will want to see it. It's rare that you see squirrels drinking out in the wild, and unless you're a rehabber, you almost never would see just how babies learn to drink. Their first instinct is to stick their whole face into it and they snort it into their noses and spend a lot of time sneezing and shaking their heads afterwards. This does not make them very interested in trying again, but thirst and instinct wins out in the end and they learn.
If you'll notice, despite that it looks like he's in a pine tree, there is a cracker under his legs and he's drinking from a plastic dustpan, so this little baby is being raised by a human, hopefully a rehabber, to be released into the wild once it's big enough.
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