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SQUIRREL: • Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots (including groundhogs), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs amongst other rodents. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and were introduced by humans to Australia.[1] The earliest known fossilized squirrels date from the Eocene epoch, and among other living rodent families, the squirrels are most closely related to the mountain beaver and to the dormice.....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel • GREY SQUIRREL (Sciurus carolinensis) • The Grey squirrel has predominantly grey fur, but it can have a reddish colour. In the UK some examples appear more red than grey, confusing some into believing they have seen a true red squirrel. This is probably due to 20 generations of natural selection due to better camouflage rather than interbreeding with red squirrels. It has a white underside and a large bushy tail. Particularly its in urban situations where the risk of predation is reduced, both pure-white and black-coloured individuals are sometimes found. The melanistic form, which is almost entirely black, is predominant in certain populations and in certain geographic areas, such as in large parts of southeastern Canada and certain southern areas of the UK. There are also genetic variations within these, including individuals with black tails and black coloured squirrels with white tails. The head and body length is from 23 to 30 cm, the tail from 19 to 25 cm and the adult weight varies between 400 and 600 grams. Although regardless of colour some urban squirrels, presumably better fed and almost semi-domesticated due to a lack of predators can reach 1kg and a height of 34cm with a tail pushing 30cm. Such large squirrels (usually female) are rare but not unknown in major cities in the UK (London, York and Sheffield are known hotspots) and are more than capable of defending against the majority of domestic cats. Squirrels are cool. • ==Behaviour - Like many members of the family Sciuridae, the Grey squirrel is a scatter-hoarder; it hoards food in numerous small caches for later recovery. Some caches are quite temporary, especially those made near the site of a sudden abundance of food which can be retrieved within hours or days for re-burial in a more secure site. Others are more permanent and are not retrieved until months later. It has been estimated that each squirrel makes several thousand caches each season. The squirrels have very accurate spatial memory for the locations of these caches, and use distant and nearby landmarks to retrieve them. Smell is used once the squirrel is within a few centimeters of the cache. It is one of very few mammalian species that can descend a tree head-first. It does this by turning its feet so that the claws of its hindpaws are backward pointing and can grip the tree bark. • Grey squirrels build a type of nest, known as a drey, in the forks of trees. The drey consists mainly of dry leaves and twigs. Squirrels may also nest in the attic or exterior walls of a house. In addition, the squirrel may inhabit a permanent tree den. • Grey squirrels are more active during the early and late hours of the day, and tend to avoid the heat in the middle of a summer day. During colder months they still seem to dissappear for a nap at some point during the day, just not necessarily midday. They do not hibernate. • Predators include humans, hawks, mustelids,domestic and feral cats, owls and dogs. Whilst Grey squirrels fight among themselves over food sources, they have been known to mob potential predators such as domestic cats. They also have a complex, tag-team defensive system involving distracting would-be predators with vigorous shaking of their tails. • The tail also serves a third purpose as well as balance and communication. When chased by either a predator or rival squirrel, squirrels run in a combination of zig-zags and small circles. These are to throw off larger predators, which have a larger turning circle than a squirrel. At speed a cat or dog cannot turn so sharply without losing it's footing. During the pursuit the squirrel's tail will often randomly flick to suggest the squirrel has changed direction when it hasn't or it went the opposite way. From the chaser's perspective this makes it impossible to predict which way the squirrel is going to run, resulting in lost ground at every direction change. • https://britishwildlife.fandom.com/wi...

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