{"id":56684,"date":"2013-12-05T21:44:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=56684"},"modified":"2013-12-05T21:44:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T17:44:51","slug":"hilarious-video-of-tippy-the-fainting-squirrel-who-appears-to-have-over-done-it-on-the-nuts-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=56684","title":{"rendered":"Hilarious video of Tippy the fainting squirrel who appears to have over done it on the nuts goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fainting-squirrel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-56681\" alt=\"\u0540\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0581\u0561\u0576\u0581, \u057d\u056f\u0575\u0578\u0582\u057c\u056b \u0570\u0578\u056c\u0578\u057e\u0561\u056f\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fainting-squirrel.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fainting-squirrel.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fainting-squirrel-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fainting-squirrel-444x300.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A squirrel who is apparently in the grip of a fainting fit has stolen the hearts &#8211; and piqued the curiosity &#8211; of internet users.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A minute-long clip shows a black squirrel standing and and nibbling a nut. It then suddenly freezes and falls to the ground for several seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then, just as inexplicably, the adorable rodent stands back up and starts chewing again, before again tipping over. And again. And again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The video has spread across the internet, with commenters on various forums speculating as to what could be behind the showing the squirrel&#8217;s bizarre behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Theories have ranged from narcolepsy to heart problems, drunkenness caused by eating fermented food, brain damage, or even a nut allergy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The clip was originally uploaded to YouTube on November 25 by Honor Via with no additional information about where it was taken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QFmvzlcPgTc\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It has already been viewed nearly 500,000 times on the video sharing website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hope he stays out of trees till he&#8217;s better,&#8217; one sympathetic commenter wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A squirrel who is apparently in the grip of a fainting fit has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":56688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,204,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-video","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}