Your Daily Facts about Squirrels
There are over 365 species of squirrels in seven families.
Squirrels are black, gray, brown, red and white.
Gray squirrels are the most common ones in the world.
The tiniest squirrel is the African pygmy squirrel.
A Kaibab squirrel has a black body and a white tail.
Squirrels start mating when they are a year old.
Most squirrels mate twice a year. A male squirrel can smell a female in heat up to a mile away.
About one inch long a baby squirrel weighs approximately one ounce at birth.
Babies squirrels are blind and totally dependent on their mothers for two or three months.
The average Squirrel litter consists of four to eight. Squirrels are usually born in the spring and end of summer.
Baby squirrels are called kittens.
The word “squirrel” means “shadow tail” in Greek.
Squirrels can run at the speed of 20 miles per hour.
Adult squirrels normally lives alone.
Squirrels hardly move out of their nests in the night.
A squirrel’s brain is about the size of a walnut.
The male tree squirrel takes twice as long, as the female, to groom itself.
A squirrels teeth grow continuously. They sharpen their teeth by chewing branches of trees.
Squirrels have sweat glands on their feet.
Squirrels have double-jointed hind legs that help them quickly climb trees.
In a week’s time, a squirrel eats almost equal to its body weight in food.
Flying squirrels gliding leaps can exceed 150 feet.
Never hold the food between your fingers to feed a squirrel you have a good chance of being bitten. A squirrel’s eyes are always looking for predators and they rarely focus on what they are eating.
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