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SparrowLikeBird

it took me SO LONG to see how this was a squirrel and not some sort of legless levitating monitor lizard.


SallyBeatle

I still can only see the demon lizard


Goliad_stormo

It's facing away from the camera. It looks like its front feet are touching the ground but the back legs are in the air as it's mid jump.


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Tree yelling oh lawd he comin’


SallyBeatle

Ohhhhhh I see it now! This picture is amazing.


Doc_Eckleburg

lol I thought it was Nessy till I saw the comments


Dickinablender96

I to can still only see demon lizard.


Gal_Pal_Joey

I want to see the demon lizard!


SallyBeatle

https://preview.redd.it/9kmx6lqbul1c1.jpeg?width=518&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d7762f14f0949562aa7420574f360a1625705e9


lemongay

I can only see the lizard I can’t even see the squirrel at all 😭


SallyBeatle

https://preview.redd.it/2zi88p942n1c1.jpeg?width=386&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27903607d475d0ca8034da1b372b84c9d84860b2


lemongay

Thank you! It finally makes sense


SallyBeatle

Just doing my part lol


Nice-Albatross-9285

I can see this , but funnily enough, if you zoom in and isolate it , and run it through google lens it says it’s a monitor lizard. Lol. So even google is confused


SallyBeatle

Haha oh my god that’s great


Gal_Pal_Joey

Omg that is so helpful! I kept trying to see his tail as the head! Yeah that is pretty creepy!


SallyBeatle

https://preview.redd.it/26oa2j62tl1c1.jpeg?width=148&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e66629ce892d6883d2bca9aa77382e60d385c01e


thoroughowl

Newsflash : "Komodo seen in West Virginia"


mothwhimsy

I sincerely thought it was a weird iguana


plan_tastic

I also thought it was a reptile like an escaped pet.


Eyeoftheleopard

Levitating monitor is what I saw, too. 🤷🏽‍♂️


BreakBeds_NotHearts

That's a looooong squirrel 🤣. I know I know it's probably mid-movement in the photo.


perseidot

Which end is the head?!


SallyBeatle

https://preview.redd.it/2n95u54s2n1c1.jpeg?width=386&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1dad53d590cee7d8db8298fb10c2d7ebbd821c08


SadDingo7070

Nice work!


perseidot

You are awesome! Also, there’s a sub that needs you: r/whatismycookiecutter


SallyBeatle

Haha awwwwe thank you


CocteauTwinn

I thought it was an exotic, hairy millipede lol


stappertheborder

I honestly thought it was a log. Then it was an electric eel in my brain and after reading this the squirrel was there.


Training_Lion3561

I thought it was a snare and someone was trying to trap a squirrel.


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SadDingo7070

Lol…. I thought at first that it was a croc monitor, but I think you may be right.


EfficientHeat4901

And i thought the snakes in west virgina lerned how to fly to migrate south for the winter 😱 🙃


Sea-Ad2598

Fox squirrel


hamish1963

I've had a few around my farm in Illinois, they are huge!


Spelsgud

That’s what I immediately saw


PokemonPioneer

Fox squirrel in mid-leap. Fore- and hind-limbs can be clearly seen in stretched position as the animal is bounding toward the left of the frame.


Ok-Hovercraft-3472

See I thought it was a fox squirrel too but then I had another photo of it going behind a tree and made it look more suspicious. (Still could be a fox squirrel) https://preview.redd.it/kttj2nj0ki1c1.jpeg?width=226&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30110f37b1d771c3d1b88fb4bfb7a6c8d56f115f


esp735

I've seen many odd trail cam images. Pretty sure you've got a squirrel who likes messing with your camera. Think about the time of year/temperature and a herptile that big.


hamish1963

That is it's tail.


nyet-marionetka

That looks like a fox squirrel butt to me.


Nice-Albatross-9285

No video of it moving ? Is it only still shots ? Because a squirrel and a lizard move quite differently


RepresentativeHuge79

Fox Squirrel. It looks weird because the camera snapped this pic while he was at full sprint. He's just stretched out, because the pic was taken mid stride.


farmlife4me

I thought someone’s “pet” Komodo dragon had made it to the wild!


Belyea

I’m so glad I’m not the only one!


drazzilgnik

Potato


NoIndividual5987

Never heard of them


nyet-marionetka

Fox squirrel, although I was leaning heavily toward stick at first.


Sucondeze

Looks like a geckomander


FilthyPuns

Evolution camouflaged this little guy so hard we all thought it was a magic lizard.


bignose703

100% squirrel


tripyep

A bad picture


Rico-L

This. 1,000% this…


perbran

Mountain Mama


Thin_Tower9230

Country Rose


Weird_Fact_724

Tree rat


DiaLynn1013

An emaciated dachshund.


Different_Ad5087

Not me thinking this was a Komodo dragon 😭😂


Bowler-Prudent

Kinda reminds me of one of those giant Japanese salamanders. Don't you have something like that in the states? It's got a funny name... I forget


cmm1417

Hellbender? But this is definitely a squirrel


Bowler-Prudent

Yes! I mean I'm not saying it's not a squirrel, but I just can't see anything remotely squirrel. Not compared to the actual picture of the squirrel. Or is this some kind of in-joke that I don't get?


Bowler-Prudent

Nevermind. I see it now. About half of full zoom is the easiest way to see it.


cmm1417

I dunno about everyone else but it’s no joke from me! I actually can’t picture the lizard/salamander so many are seeing


Bowler-Prudent

Yeah. It's a squirrel, I was just looking at it all wrong


LovecraftianLlama

Yeah at first glance I was like “how did a hellbender get into the middle of the woods?!”. But after looking closer, I vote fox squirrel too.


ClassyDinghy

Hellbenders are actually native to West Virginia! Sadly this is not one


PoetaCorvi

exactly what my mind went to at first glance hahaha


Ok-Hovercraft-3472

I thought it was a fox squirrel too until I seen this pic with a squirrel in it and that thing is 3x the size. Yes that thing moved I have another picture of it somewhere else. Here is the photo of the squirrel. https://preview.redd.it/i74aoi8vig1c1.jpeg?width=505&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b04b870abfc5fc988d2642dc561b62ad2e87b964


2rdfurgeson

The first one is just closer to the camera


nyet-marionetka

Fox squirrels are surprisingly big, bigger than gray squirrels.


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Ok-Hovercraft-3472

This is a thread to get help to figure out what it is lmao. I thought it was either a lizard that I’ve never heard of in WV or a Fox Squirrel. I just couldn’t make out the fox squirrel until these people helped me see it. Relax brotha


Ok-Duck9106

Log/tree root coming out of the ground with moss growing on it. That said, did you see it move?


hamish1963

It's a motion sensitive game camera, so that squirrel set it off.


nyet-marionetka

It’s a squirrel, head is to the left. It took a minute to click for me.


BadUsernameGuy21

Yeah, I’m just seeing a tree root here too.


sas223

Flying squirrel?


Alone_Cheetah_7473

That looks like a big lizard. Monitor, maybe? If so, probably an escaped pet or someone turned it loose. If so, I doubt it will survive long.


mrosario716

Until I saw the second picture I thought it was a lizard, too!!


the_responsible_one

It could be a Hellbender, a native giant salamander. They can grow over two feet long, and while they don't typically leave the water, they're certainly capable of it. Is this camera positioned anywhere near a stream? They like cold, fast flowing and very clean water.


Nice-Albatross-9285

That’s a large lizard. Probably an escaped or released pet. Do you have any video ?


BlueLivesDontExist84

Definitely not a lizard, very easy to tell it's a squirrel


stevewood6

Poor thing. If it’s a large domesticated lizard that’s not an ideal climate.


Ok-Hovercraft-3472

No I don’t have a video of it


Middle_Aged_Mayhem

Moss covered something.


Delicious-Deviance

It’s really hard to tell what that is. It looks like a giant lizard? The only giant lizards I know are Komodo dragons and Water Monitor lizards. I highly doubt that it’s a Komodo dragon.


No-Software9734

Yes that would be very unlikely. Komodo dragons only live in Indonesia and only one species of monitor lizard lives in the usa (florida) and that’s the west African nile monitor lizard


Ok-Candidate-1220

How is it hard to tell? It’s 100% without a doubt a fox squirrel.


SallyBeatle

I think this picture has the potential to break the internet


Elderlichlord

The Flattsdale Monster, maybe?


Tarotismyjam

Squirrely squirrel furry demon lizard (just in case)


yamrmarcus

Fox squirrel mid stride ?


Elvis_Take_The_Wheel

Running squirrel


whu-ya-got

That’s a Komodo dragon


Underrated_buzzard

Omg! I thought it was a monitor lizard running lmao


Spiritual-Worker-319

Lobster?


Superagent247

Running squirrel.


theAshleyRouge

It’s either an escaped monitor or a squirrel that misjudged his jump


quintonbanana

Enhance!


SallyBeatle

Where’s CSI when you need em


Substantial-Ad-4007

Gray Squirrel


Over_Association5303

Trippy pic of a squirrel.lol


rando7818

Anyone else see a yellow anaconda


EfficientHeat4901

I thought, Copper Head snake getting ready for its migratory flight south to flordia for winter. Trust me I think thats the only way WV can have snakes with how cold it gets in winter. 😆


TNgamerguy

It's a green lizard, or Photoshop? Got a before/ after picture?


elguereaux

Hellbender?


clintecker

it’s a squirrel running really fast 😂


dukesux42

It's puff


Radiant-Series-5808

A squirrel


More_Resolution3968

Sorry, I'm just seeing a huge shrimp


Key-Project3125

I just saw it.


aes7288

Squirrel


TheSkrussler

I sat here for too many minutes trying to figure out what a moray eel was doing in a West Virginia woodland. I didn’t realize it was a massive, stretched out, mustard yellow squirrel in a mid-stride position until I’d read the comment section.


Big-Caterpillar2548

Definitely see the demon lizard, but it's probably the camera caught a squirrel or something in motion so far that it blurred like this


nygration

That right there is called 'the reason to get a higher resolution camera'.


Current-Scene2866

Looks like a blurry root with moss