What is the squirrel

Animal squirrel rodents, often live on the trees, and has a dense and large tail, his eyes Sodawan and Asatan, and rounded ears. Most types graceful animals, with tails Kth hair and long. However, many types of squirrels do not climb trees, and has a short tails; and called the latter ground squirrels, and include both Chidnana, and marmot, and prairie dogs. Squirrels are found in Asia, Europe and America. It also is found in Africa, but different strains., And feeds on nuts and oak and fruit, and eat the eggs and chicks of birds nests. And is prey for birds of prey, snakes and foxes. Of special squirrels types:

Squirrels housing

Usually squirrels live in trees slots; they build their own private nests of twigs covered securities. And the adoption of squirrels usually in the northern hemisphere, strong nests dedicated to winter. The construction of these nests are dry leaves of the trees and the remains of a small-sized tree bark. May be used in the construction sometimes lichen, dry grass. In this structure to become a college nest warm and resistance to weather. And may have used a group of squirrels nest and one in the winter; in the summer, it is doing a temporary nest, only composed of sparse pile of twigs and leaves Cger.otaich squirrels all over the world, except for areas of Australia, Madagascar, and the southern part of South America. Perhaps the smaller types of squirrels squirrel African Dwarf, which is found in West Africa, and weighs approximately 15 grams and up to 8 cm in length and has a tail length of 5 cm. While the Asian giant squirrels of the largest types of squirrels; as a single 85 cm in length, including the tail.

Behavior

A squirrel food stores.

Squirrels trees very cautious and active animals and increases its activity mainly during daylight hours, in contrast to most other rodents. It is also a severe inconvenience and taunts each other high cries, and whistling, and sounds annoying. These are associated with behavioral manifestations often defend the region or from food sources. These squirrels are strong and sharp claws, and all joints of the wrist and ankle flexible to a large degree and can walk related to the bottom of the tree branches in order to reach the food, and come down from the tree trunk speeding in the running. The jump from branch to another, using their tail Alkt in keeping balance.

In the winter in Europe, a time of cohabitation enters the male to the female area - where both of them live in the habit solo - nationally and dancing in front of her acrobatic movements to seduce her. It takes this dance and stumping for several days and then the female agrees to intercourse. The couple stays together for several weeks, but after 38 days, and it's time the situation of female whereupon the expulsion of the male does not allow him to stay in the region. The female lays between two small to seven young are born and Magafola eyes to the period.

Eastern gray squirrel in the Barbican Center in London, eating candy.

Animal squirrel is characterized by the ability to plan and gather food and store it and lead it actively. Individual brings them nearly to 2,000 nuts and pine cones and the Btakbitha in nearly 100 store. Mother and you breed young until they reach the age of ten weeks. When spring comes and shall be ready to download again. And naturally that the mother does not find all the caches stored food, but in the spring takeovers emergence of new plants.