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Back when I worked at Disney, a subset of the Asian guests would get excited and take pictures of squirrels. Are there parts of Asia that don't have many squirrels?
Japan doesn't generally have squirrels like in the US. I took my wife to DC and we spent a solid 10+ minutes taking photos and videos of squirrels around the mall.
i’m from australia and i’m always excited to see squirrels… they don’t exist here at all
Want some? Says the Canadian.
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LOL
I have some friends in Australia and I always send them pictures of squirrels when I see them. Got TONS where I live.
I felt the opposite when we visited Brazil, they had these little monkeys everywhere like squirrels here but they didn't know what a squirrel was haha, basically they had squirrels with monkey faces instead
Squirrels are not native in most of Asia.
In South Asia, we have lots of different giant squirrel species. Maybe they're not that common in East Asia?
We have squirrels in my country but I've never seen one in person to be frank. If you've lived in a heavily populated area your entire life then it's not uncommon you'd be surprised to see common wildlife out and about
Squirrels are extremely common in (most of?) the US, even in cities. There's an albino one that lives in my neighborhood, that one was interesting enough to stop and take a picture of.