PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian woman is in hot water after customs officers at an Indian airport found two giant squirrels in her checked-in luggage.

The woolly squirrel’s rocky habitat, at elevations of nearly 16,000 feet, is remote and uninhabited, part of the reason why few Western scientists have even seen the animal in the wild.

It’s easy to take a picture of a squirrel. It’s not so easy to take a memorable one. Out of the hundreds of squirrel photos I received, these are the ones that stuck with me.