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Photograph by Hannover Police/AP Images

June 2014

Germany—The head of a trapped red squirrel pokes through a manhole cover in Isernhagen. Police freed the rodent by gently pushing back its ears and drizzling olive oil on its neck. But the ordeal proved too stressful, and the squirrel did not survive.

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