Introducing Stumpy.

There's a squirrel with no tail that lives outside the Biological Sciences building. It's got a tail la, but only a small bit of it. Maybe it got rolled over by a car, or got into a pub brawl, i don't know. The people in the Bio building know it by sight and they call it Stumpy. There are two common species of squirrels on campus - a large, grey variety and a small black kind, and Stumpy is of the latter group. Apparently it sometimes falls out of the branches, probably because of the imbalance due to lack of tail. I'd imagine it gets bullied a lot by the other squirrels (maybe they shove him off the trees and steal his nuts) since their tails are such handy things to wave around and show off (like pompoms) and poor Stumpy has none. Today i saw it being chased by a mean looking large grey squirrel, while another small black one stood around and watched the drama unfold. Tsk tsk.

Politics.