Brucie... one perch shy of a bird feeder. (I know. I should talk.)

I chased one of the little bastards around my house once. Luckily, I was more pissed off than the sqyrryll. I got a good look at those claws, and they're huge, sharp things. If skwhorls were predatorial, we'd be in big trouble, with them leaping out of trees on us and ripping our eyeballs out. We'd have to live in metal houses and hope they didn't learn how to use crowbars and power tools. Heaven help us if they ever swarmed. Hitchcock's "The Birds" would look like a Disney film.