Squirrel Math

Am I the only one who has noticed the specific rhythm and flow of movement of squirrels?

Quite possibly!

I saw a squirrel running in front of me today, or rather it was more of a bounding than a run. You all know what I mean, I'm sure you've seen squirrels bound along the road. What I recognized for the first time today, is the way in which a squirrel bounding looks something like a sine wave. Even his tail in following after him seems to follow the direction the body was previously at. So it's like, I bet if we had a video of the squirrel and drew a squiggly sine wave across it, no part of the squirrel would deviate from that line at any moment of bounding!

I know, I know, you're all pretty impressed and amazed, and from now on you'll all pay closer attention to the math of the squirrel's bounding methods, and probably someone will write in saying, "Steve, I've calculated precisely the equation for the squirrel's bound" and then produce some figure like 2sin(14) and we all punch it into our graphical calculators and say, "hmm.. that looks about right" but nobody really wants to actually check the proof and see if it's accurate because, c'mon man, you have too much time on your hands.