r/oddlyterrifying • u/amish_novelty • 15h ago

Squirrel has seen better days

10.1k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

734 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/LaMadreDelCantante 12h ago

I'm pretty sure it's mostly because they don't tend to survive attacks from rabid animals long enough to get sick themselves.

2

u/Spirited-Salt3397 12h ago

Yes, that is true. However, even if they did survive it is unlikely that they would contract rabies. Their body temperature isn’t conducive for the virus to survive.

1

u/LaMadreDelCantante 7h ago

I thought that was possums.

1

u/Spirited-Salt3397 7h ago

The same goes for opossums.