What Can Squirrels Teach Us About Life?

I found this dead squirrel laying on the side of the trail today. She hadn’t been there when I passed by 20 minutes earlier, and the body was still warm. No major injuries, just a bloody nose (and a broken neck/cracked skull, I’m sure). She must just have fallen to an untimely death.

So what’s the morale of the story? No matter how proficient you are at something, and no matter how much you’re in your element – a potentially fatal slip is always just moments away! So keep checking yourself, and don’t get too confident!

I wonder what the mortality rate from falling to death is for the common gray squirrel…