u/fracxjo

I'm doing a research for my university about recording sounds from the Eastern Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and I need a lot of recordings from the species; I already got some from Xeno-Canto and the Macaulay Library, but having some recording from the same place where i'll then be gathering data may greatly improve the quality of it.

I need to "convince" the squirrels I find there to produce sounds, but if I attract them with food then their mouths will be busy eating and they're so used to humans that my presence doesn't scare them enough to make alarm calls.

What can I do to make them make sounds? I was thinking about recording them when they're in groups (or at least 2) so they'd be more likely to make sounds, but are there better ways?

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