Squirrel Fever — Catch It!
If you happened to catch Tuesday's episode (which, by the way, will be repeated on Friday at 10 p.m.) and saw the "Wandering Josh" segment featuring Berkeley Prof. Lucy Jacobs, an ebullient expert on squirrels and their obsessions, you may have become as smitten as I am with those surprisingly brilliant rodents. In which case, you will be grateful that I'm now passing along a couple of photos of their daredevil relatives, flying squirrels. These candid shots were taken by Berkeley psychology grad student Anna Waisman, who works in Lucy's lab and also was prominently featured in the WJ:


The pix were snapped mere moments ago -- so you are now privy to cutting-edge research in the animal-psych field! Now if we could just find an expert in talking mooses. ...
3 comments September 15th, 2005