I was walking across the campus and this guy on a bicycle was speeding down a hill and just narrowly missed hitting a squirrel as he turned a bit and the squirrel scampered across. But afterward the squirrel was just standing there on its hind legs and it looked like it was clutching its "hands" and thumping its tail back and forth, staring in the direction of the bicycle. It seemed to know that it had just managed to cheat death. That squirrel seemed terribly sentient.