Cool footage has emerged from Canada of a squirrel jumping an impressive distance in slow motion.

The video, filmed in Montreal yesterday, shows the rodent leaping four or five feet from a fence to a tree.

The filmer later wrote online: "Sitting in the park while my car is having its tires changed, and I see a squirrel about to jump from a fence to a tree. Capture it in slow motion, and the detail in slow motion is totally beautiful."