Having just posted upthread I fell I must expand to clarify, I do not think Spoetnik is anything like the Squirrel galagos (Sciurocheirus) whose prehensile hands ( in both fore AND hind paws) give it the neural sophistication that is way beyond Spoetnics capacity.
He would be more the inferior melanistic eastern grey squirrel.
Common, and wholly idiotic almost as fully as you Mus Musculus fools.