Day 14.263: Squirrels (half-off or more)

The other day, we saw an unusual-looking squirrel and one of the kids said, "It's the tail-less squirrel" which led to an animated discussion that made it clear that at least two of the kids were familiar with a local squirrel with no tail and one (that we had just seen) that has half a tail.

 
Well, the other day I saw the tail-less one and discovered that it is - whatever the opposite of skittish is - "hsittiks" perhaps (I'm pretty sure that's how language works). It's just as well because the light was fading and I wouldn't have had any chance of getting a photo of a skittish squirrel in the twilight.