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which begs the question: where are all the "essential squirrel facts" that were promised?



Maybe a product manager realized it didn't make sense to provide "essential squirrel facts" to a page featuring the image of a chipmunk. :-)


Author here. Rookie mistake! It's actually a golden-mantled ground squirrel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden-mantled_ground_squirrel

A chipmunk would have a stripe going across the eye.

(Today, you learned your first squirrel fact!)


I did learn something new, not just about squirrels but about chipmunks, too.

Thank you.

And here I was impressed merely by the delivery of image data in the HTML stream. Little did I realize your page is practically an Encyclopedia Rodentia.

Kudos and hats off.


The fact they didn't want us to know


I'll admit, I had the same thought. :)




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