http://blog.nwf.org/2012/03/animal-trickery-its-no-april-fools-joke/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Sat, 25 May 2013 18:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.nwf.org/2012/03/animal-trickery-its-no-april-fools-joke/comment-page-1/#comment-13513 Kathleen (Kathie) Clohessy Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:24:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/?p=51428#comment-13513 I once had a chipmunk in my home who played dead. I chased it for hours, and eventually found it hiding inside my sofa bed. When I  unfolded the bed to try to retrieve it, I found the poor little creature lying completely still, mouth open, eyes shut, limbs outstretched and looking very, very dead. Saddened and sure that I had somehow killed it, I picked it up, placed it gently in a shoe box and covered it with a few paper towels before taking it outside to give it a proper burial (I’m sentimental-can’t help myself.) Once outside, I put the box on the patio and was reaching over to close screen door when out of the corner of my eye I saw a tiny bit of movement under the towel… I quickly lifted a corner to see what was going on and the chipmunk suddenly lifted its head, looked around and ran for cover before I could even blink an eye.  

]]> http://blog.nwf.org/2012/03/animal-trickery-its-no-april-fools-joke/comment-page-1/#comment-13433 Connie Sandford Gutt Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:19:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/?p=51428#comment-13433 I play dead all the time, but my husband is never convinced. lol

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