All singing, all dancing

One summer, me, my dad and my sister would go to interesting places -- wildlife type places, mostly. There was one we went to, and I think it was mostly a bird sanctuary, but it had a cage with a squirrel in it. The squirrel was absolutely frantic -- racing to one side and jumping up, racing to the other and doing the same thing, rinse and repeat...

We dubbed it "the Tufty dance" and I know I at least thought it was just that the particular squirrel we saw was mad, possibly because of the cage.

However, other squirrels have been seen doing it. Without a cage. In the middle of the road, even -- it obviously needed some lessons from those famous hedgehogs about road safety...

I've never found out whether there's any reason for squirrels doing that. Maybe they just like to puzzle us. ;)