SQUIRRELS
Mammal     -     Vertebrate     -     Herbivore   -   Omnivore - (Flying Squirrel)

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GREY SQUIRREL

FLYING SQUIRREL

ALBINO GREY SQUIRREL

Squirrels ...

• Nests are called 'dreys'
  
• Eat nuts, fruit and seeds
  
• Are rodents
  
• Grey squirrels are called 'living fossils' as they haven't changed much in 37 million years
  
• Their teeth never stop growing
  
• Are born blind
• Have no colour vision - they see only in black and white
• Can generally remember the hiding places of up to 10,000 nuts, yet ...
• Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who have buried their nuts and forgotten where they hid them
• They kiss to identify each other
• Are immune to rabies
• Live about 9 years
• Can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground
• Will adopt other squirrel's babies if they are abandoned

Flying Squirrels

• Flying squirrels glide between trees.  Once they land, they climb back up a tree to continue their flight
  
• Eat nuts and acorns, bark, sap, seeds, flowers, berries, fruit lichen, slugs, snails, young mice, insects, birds' eggs and baby birds
• Main predators are raccoons, foxes, owls, coyotes, snakes, birds, cats and dogs
• Live about 6 years in the wild and 10-15 years in captivity

There are 365 species of squirrel
There are 50 species of flying squirrels

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Male  ...........................................  Buck
Female  .......................................  Doe
Young  .........................................  Pup.  Kit.  Kitten

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SIMILE

1. As full of spirit as a squirrel
   

COLLECTIVE NOUNS

1. A colony of squirrels
2. A colony of red squirrels
3. A dray of squirrels
   
4. A scurry of squirrels
   
5. A squad of squirrels

IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSION

1.   Squirrel away (something)

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RED SQUIRREL

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