Ooookay...

Down in Florida:

An animal sneaking around Baker County is not an orangutan as originally thought but likely a fox squirrel, state wildlife officials said Friday. Officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission laid doughnuts at a base of a tree after residents reported seeing a "big orange ball of fur."

The animal was probably an orange phase fox squirrel, Fish and Wildlife investigator Ken Holmes told The Florida Times-Union. The red-orange animals can grow to be about 2 feet tall and can climb in trees.

Right then. Let's review. This is an orangutan:

And this is a fox squirrel:

Now, class, tell me what differences between the two you can spot.

(As a side note, this is a decent example of why I'm skeptical of "eyewitness" testimony.)

(As another side note, I'd laugh like hell if this turned out to be an orang, natch.)

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Comments

[Eli]

Perhaps it was an orangutan squirrel.

[sherry]

or a squirrelatan.

or maaaayyybbeeee, a bigfoot with a dye job???

[spork_incident]

or maaaayyybbeeee, a bigfoot with a dye job???

"Oh, miss? A sunset orange, if you would."

-[signed] A Squirel

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[Redbeard72]

Sometimes I worry about Florida- like, maybe the rest of the states should have an intervention or something, you know?