Photo of a brown-and-gray squirrel clinging to the bark of a backyard live oak tree, lapping sap from a small hole drilled through the bark—one of the sap wells created by a sapsucker bird.
But then the squirrel shows up and steals your sap... 🪶🦊
(Is there proper ecological terminology for this interaction? Is the squirrel a sap well parasite? A sap opportunist? I'm leaning toward sap pirate...)
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