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Google do squirrels hibernate8/14/2023 When settlers first arrived in this country, they reported squirrels being so thick in the trees above during a migration that they nearly blocked out the sun. It looks like a leafy piñata in a tree, but please don’t hit it with a stick.ġ0) Squirrels in North America used to migrate (or emigrate according to some wildlife biologists) in massive numbers, following cycles of bountiful acorn harvests. I saw it once, and it was one of the best days of my life.Ħ) In Japan, there are squirrel gardens (where you can pet squirrels with oven mitts).ħ) The white fur on the inner thigh of a squirrel is the softest thing you have never touched.Ĩ) Squirrels pull out their tail fur for their young.ĩ) A squirrel nest is called a drey. Except for Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel.ĥ) The college I went to had a rare white unicorn squirrel in its central square. But can you run vertically up a tree at 12 mph? I didn’t think so.)Ĥ) Squirrels are good swimmers, although they usually prefer not to. (Unless you’re Usain Bolt, in which case you’re probably faster than a squirrel. Given that squirrels are less than 1/10th the size of people, if you could do this, you would be a superhero who could literally jump onto five story buildings and clear buses and trucks in a single bound.ģ) Squirrels can sprint faster than you. So here it is (with pictures), twelve amazing facts about squirrels for the uninitiated.ġ) There’s a squirrel superhero: Squirrel Girl! (And Ulysses –the squirrel superhero from Kate DiCamillo’s fabulous Flora and Ulysses, who writes poems!).Ģ) Squirrels can jump vertically five feet, and can leap between objects that are over ten feet apart. I’ve tried to explain my love of squirrels to folks before, only to watch them back away slowly and speed dial their doctor for a rabies vaccine.
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