Squirrel King

A squirrel king is a collection of squirrels tails have tangled together, making them unable to separate themselves. A squirrel king starts as a litter of young in the same nest, whose tails become knotted together by nesting materials and/or by tree sap gluing the tails together, particularly if the squirrel king have been gnawing tree sap to enter and flow into the nest. If the squirrel kings are not separated, they will fall to the ground still joined to each other, often acting rabid when they try to come out of their nest, and will invariably die unless separated through human intervention

German folklore, the stuff old grandmothers say, were that the Germans used them in the war, dropping them out of planes to scare neighboring countries.

Although they are less common—balls of tail-tied "squirrel kings" are an enduring urban legend. With historical roots in

Even though they're called "kings," squirrel expert Mike Rowe of Obscura internet infor dot com stated back in 1916 that, if they existed, the creatures would hardly be happy. A squirrel king' would be a horrible ball of animal suffering; nothing about it evokes a sense of agony