Squirrel Fishing!

[Tuckerfan]

Or you’re doing what with the money we’re spending to send you to Harvard?

Some insight was gained, however, into ways of focusing squirrels attention on small objects which are dropping on the ground, such as acorns. This led to the formulation of Gloy’s First Conjecture that a squirrel will always give up one acorn if another one is thrown nearby.
This led to our current approach to measure the reaction of squirrels to a peanut tied to a long piece of string. The low end of the performance scale includes not running away from a peanut thrown at the subject, and following it as it is dragged through the grass. The aiming accuracy of the trowing process can be greatly increased by attaching a key to the string about 3 inches from the end.

It looks like fun, too bad there aren’t any squirrels near where I live.

[carnivorousplant]

@Tuckerfan

It looks like fun, too bad there aren’t any squirrels near where I live.

There are always squirrels around.
They are sneaky little so-in-sos, probably slipping up behind you with a blunt instrument even as we speak. Er, post.

[cher3]

Harvard Yard? I know those squirrels.
You’re going to need a bigger boat.

[AskNott]

At first, I thought you meant something like mouse fishing, in which a fish hook is tied to a live mouse. The mouse’s frantic swimming commotion attracts big bass and catfish. Pet stores sell mice as snake food.