SEE: Dead Squirrel Carried On NYC Subway Train

NEW YORK — New York City subway riders have had to encountet raccoons, rats and even a tiny dead shark during their commutes — but this was probably a first. A straphanger carried an apparently dead squirrel onto a train in Manhattan Wednesday afternoon as her fellow riders sat oblivious to its presence, video of the incident shows.

The woman held the rodent's limp body, partially wrapped in what looks like black plastic, as she sat on the train, according to the footage. The squirrel looked lifeless but peaceful — as unperturbed as the other straphangers who sat further down on the train, seeming not to notice the impromptu funeral procession.

While it's uncertain whether the squirrel was real, the man who first posted the video to Instagram was not so blissfully ignorant — he turned the camera around to show his face bearing a skeptical expression.

The popular Subway Creatures account shared the video to its Instagram page late Thursday morning, where it had racked up more than 118,000 views by about 11:30 a.m.

Patch could not immediately reach the rider who took the video, and the MTA said it got no reports of the animal's bizarre appearance. But Rick McGuire, who runs the Subway Creatures page, said the footage was taken between 4 and 5 p.m. Wednesday on a 3 train near the 125th Street station.

New York City Transit rules bar riders from bringing animals onto subway trains unless they're in a container and "carried in a manner which would not annoy other passengers." Straphangers also aren't supposed to behave in ways that cause "annoyance, alarm or inconvenience" to others — though other riders on the squirrel train did not appear alarmed.

See the video of the dead squirrel below.