Animal squirrel

Squirrel

Squirrels live in wild areas, and they are of several types, including flying squirrels, tree squirrels, and ground squirrels. As for squirrels, trees are called so because they climb trees and build nests for them between their branches. They are also very careful, and their activity increases during the day unlike other types of rodents. As for squirrels, the ground is of a short tail and cannot climb trees and the most prominent types of hunter-gatherer, prairie, and prairie dogs. . The squirrel is a graceful animal, has a long tail with thick hair, and has two dark eyes, wide, round ears, and chisel-like teeth, and it has strong and sharp claws, and the wrist and ankle joints have very flexibility to be able to move between trees flexibly.

 The home of squirrels:

Squirrels are found in the continent of Asia, Europe, and America, and there are types of them in Africa with different strains, including the so-called dwarf squirrel, which weighs 15 kg, and a length of 8 cm, unlike the Asian ones, which are characterized as the largest types of squirrels with a weight of 85 g including the tail While squirrels cannot live in Australia, Madagascar and the southern part of South America, squirrels are also the most species of rodent in terms of number, and they have more than 30 species, including:

 Giant Grizzly Squirrel:

His scientific name is Ratufa macrourus, and he is the smallest giant squirrel with a length ranging from 25 to 45 cm. Categories threatened with fishing due to hunting.

Southern Bird Squirrel:

Its scientific name is volans Glaucomys, and it is the only species found in the North American continent, specifically in deciduous forests, and in the southeastern side of Canada, and the state of Florida in the United States of America, with a small number in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, and has brown fur Color, feeding on fruits, nuts.

 Asian squirrel:

Known as the tri-color and scientific name Callosciurus prevostii, it is found in the forests of the Thai peninsular, Malaysian, Sumatra, Borneo, and North Sulawesi, and feeds on fruits, nuts, seeds, buds, flowers, insects, and bird eggs.

 Unstriped ground squirrel:

It is one of the rodent animals found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, and has brown color.

 The Alpine Marmot:

 His scientific name is Marmota marmota, found in the mountainous regions of central and southern European Europe, at heights ranging from 800 to 3200 meters from the Alps, the Carpathian Mountains, the Tatra Mountains, the Pyrenees, and the northern part of Italy, and the length of these categories ranges from 42 to 54 cm, It has reddish blonde colors and dark gray fur.

Indian palm:

It is the types of rodents that were found in the Indian countries and Sri Lanka in the late nineteenth century, and spread in the countries of Madagascar, Reunion, Mayotte, Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, and Australia, and it is planned with three gray and brown lines, and its tail is shorter than the length of its body, and looks like a cat's tail .

 Eastern gray:

 It is located in the east, and the mid-western part of the United States of America, New Brunswick to Manitoba, and extends from the south to the east in the states of Florida, Texas, and southeastern parts of the eastern provinces in Canada, and was shown in the countries of Ireland, Britain, Italy, South Africa, and Australia.

 Food for squirrels:

 Squirrels feed on nuts, fruits, nest eggs and chickens. Squirrel food varies from one season to another. In the beginning of the spring season squirrel feeds on buds and flowers, in addition to insects, mollusks, and a few eggs, and in the summer they feed on fruits, while in autumn they feed on seeds and nuts such as conifers, nuts, nuts, oak, It stores its reserves for the winter, by storing it in tree holes or burying it under the ground, where one of them can collect approximately 2000 pills of hazelnuts and deposit it with about one hundred stores. It is reported that the squirrel has the ability to remember the areas where food was hidden when needed . Squirrels are distinguished by each occupying a region of their own, and disturbing sounds and loud screams are used as a means to defend them, as their male and female live in a region separate from the other until the date of reproduction comes, then the male joins the female area, which in turn fights him and takes him out from it when it is finished The breeding season, and the female gives birth to 2-6 squirrels in each delivery process, and she can give birth twice in one year.