Squirrel fishing

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Squirrel fishing

Squirrel Fishing ( German  croissant fishing ) is a leisure activity that essentially involves lifting a croissant (such as a gray squirrel ). The croissant angler attaches a peanut or other bait to a longer string. If the croissant grabs the bait, it is important to lift the line carefully enough that the croissant holds the nut until it hovers above the ground.

It should be noted that the North American gray squirrel ( Sciurus carolinensis ) is much less shy than the Eurasian red squirrel ( Sciurus vulgaris ).

The origins of the hobby are unknown. As early as 1889, The Pullman Herald ( Pullman, Washington ) reported that Squirrel Fishing was popular in California .

Croissant fishing, demonstrated on a gray squirrel (video, 41 sec.)

In the late 1990s there was a revival of the hobby at American universities, probably first at Harvard . Nikolas Gloy and Yasuhiro Endō ( Japanese 遠藤 泰 広 ) from Harvard University published an illustrated guide to squirrel fishing on their website A new approach to rodent performance evaluation in 1997 . In 2004 there were numerous other teams, including a. at Penn State University (Squirrel Fishing Rescue Rangers) , the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley Squirrel Fishers) and the University of Oregon . Squirrel anglers appeared on ABC News . Reports have appeared in numerous college magazines, as well as the Los Angeles Times , Fortune , the Oregonian, and the San Francisco Chronicle . According to the online edition of the London newspaper Times , it is a widespread employment in the United States. In Berkeley, the Berkeley Squirrel Fishers had over 80 members in 2002 and were part of the US-wide United States Squirrel Fishers Association .

Since 1997 the hobby has also developed in Japan.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter E. Zimmer , Notes on Pnin , Rowohlt 1998
  2. ^ The Pullman Herald, April 6, 1889 at hroniclingamerica.loc.gov (English), accessed July 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Julia S. Chen: More to Squirrels at Harvard? , The Harvard Crimson, April 23, 2009
  4. ↑ Annie Tomlin: Squirrel Fishing Instructions , the Science Creative Quarterly 4/2009
  5. ↑ Nikolas Gloy and Yasuhiro Endo: Squirrel Fishing: A new approach to rodent performance evaluation (English and Japanese), accessed on July 14, 2015.
  6. ↑ Ashley Powers: Rodent reeling
  7. ↑ Caley Cook: Nut Jobs ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sdcitybeat.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , San Diego Citybeat, September 15, 2004
  8. ↑ Mirande Keenes: Top 10 ways to forage for free food , June 4, 2008
  9. ↑ Bryan Ritchie: Nutty Goodness ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dailycal.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Daily Californian May 6, 2002
  10. ↑ Hysterically Funny! Squirrel Fishing in Japan! (English), accessed July 14, 2015.
  11. ↑ Neatorama: Squirrel fishing , March 3, 2010