There was also a study utilizing a robotic Raccoon named Rocky, but he fell back in his room only to find Gideon's Bible.

Gideon checked out but he left it, no doubt, to help with good Rocky's revival.

does this mean we can expect a Bullwinkle moose-bot?

I wanna see the day when some hillbilly walks into the research area with a shotgun shoots this thing thinking it`s a real squirrel, and shooting them up is fun.

Yeah, that would be fun...

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Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a robot out of my hat.

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They run back across the street because their eyes focus slightly outward, and they sometimes have a hard time seeing large distances straight ahead, but know how far they have to run back to the safety of their previous location. Thanks high school biology.

Next, Carl Spackler and gopher infiltration.

Why? Science is done first and foremost to satisfy curiosity. If there's something someone feels is worth investigating, then by all means, it's worth inverstigating.

Asking why people would want to study squirrel behavior is tantamount to asking why people create art.

Great. Now squirrels will really know how stupid we are. I mean, come on, we're gonna send a stuffed animal with robotic motors to live among them...well, at least we'll know how they say "those dumb ass humans."

I wonder if squirrels send robotic humans among us to study people behavior.

I'd think that animals wouldn't be terribly interested in these sorts of things. They don't smell like animals, they likely make mechanical noises, and they probably emit some degree of EMF radiation that animals don't. Overall they aren't quite right in an animal's perspective.

@HDC: but what if its made from other squirrels

@DisposableInterloper: "Asking why people would want to study squirrel behavior is tantamount to asking why people create art." As an Anthropologist, I think asking why people create art is an excellent question that has yet to be adequately answered. You're absolutely right about science and curiosity, though.

Our precious tax dollars hard at work.