Body shape is usually medium-sized, is cold temperate coniferous forests and mixed forests in the typical representative of the animal. Squirrel maxillary molars of 5, 4 jaw, on the number of different mandibular&nbs.. [Full]
Body shape is usually medium-sized, is cold temperate coniferous forests and mixed forests in the typical representative of the animal. Squirrel maxillary molars of 5, 4 jaw, on the number of different mandibular molars. Before hind wing without a skin. Limbs strong, toes have sharp claws, claw was hooked end, weight is usually 350 grams, females slightly heavier than males. Squirrel dignified posture and light, body grow about 18-26 cm long, thick tail, tail length for more than two-thirds of body length, but less than body length.
dense hair long and fluffy tail, limbs and front and rear foot are longer, but the forelimbs shorter than hind legs. Auricular developed, when folded up before the eyes and ears in winter end of a handful of black long-haired bundle. Body back from the rostral to the tail base, the lateral side of the body and limbs are brown-gray, kinetosome dark gray, brown or gray Tippy. The abdomen from below the rear collar to tail base, the inside of the limbs are white. Dorsal and ventral tail brownish-black, kinetosome gray, Tippy brown black. Kiss the Department of Great Britain such as the cheeks and lower back color, but the partial schungite, ear-shell dark gray, winter hair with a large bunch of black hair cluster. Individual coat quite different for the blue gray, gray, brown gray, dark gray and black-brown and so on. As the regional differences in coat color also changes, such as the color side Liaoning, gray squirrel, but squirrels in southern China was more dark colors. In addition, the coat color is also affected by seasonal effects of winter gray, or grayish brown hair, summer hair black or dark brown.
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squirrel squirrel habits ears and tail hair unusually long, can adapt to the tree of life; they use like a long hook of the claw and tail hanging down the branches. At dawn and evening, will leave the trees to the ground on the prey. Squirrels in the fall, after finding an abundance of food, both will make use of tree holes or in the ground digging, storage, fruit and other foods at the same time block the hole with soil or deciduous.
red squirrel body hair in summer to the fall will be replaced with black-gray winter hair tightly cover the whole body. New-born squirrel, hairless body, the eyes are also unknown, 8 days after birth, began to Long Hair, 30 days later that opened his eyes, and 45 days will be able to eat hard fruits of action become very agile. Squirrel is the owner of a very gentle little guy, we should treat them gently, you are dead-set so that it will definitely not use your teeth hurt. Of course, they will gently with his teeth gnawing your fingers, and you play, feel will be very itch, this is it your friendship.
squirrel nest in the dense branches, or use of crows and magpies nest of waste, and sometimes also nest in holes in trees to do; their addition to eating wild fruits, but also eat twigs, buds, leaves, and the insects and eggs. Autumn arrived, the squirrel began to store food, a squirrel would often be stored for several kilograms of food a few hours, and sometimes see squirrels in the trees drying of food, without allowing them to degenerate rotten. Thus, in the cold winter, the squirrel would have nothing to worry about eating.
squirrel strong ability to have children, it is the same as with other rodents, with mature early, breed fast characteristics. Yi Eryue each year, the male and female squirrels started falling in love, male thick tail swing jump in the crown of the pursuit of females, this time the female is also excited about a warm hand in hand. Estrus is about continuation of two weeks, during which male and female is almost inseparable. Females 35-40 days of pregnancy Chanzai, generally producing two births each year, occasionally three tires. First year of the birth of the female, each child produced three cubs -6 cubs, the first two years after the birth can be produced five cubs per -10 cubs. Newly-born pups smooth without hair, body red, eyes closed, weighing 7 grams -8.5 g, body length 5.6 cm, tail length of 2.4 centimeters. Pups born 8-9 months of onset of sexual maturity, that is, the first two years of breeding can be a spouse.
squirrels like to eat vegetarian, occasionally, everybody eats meat. It is mainly vegetarian red pine, spruce, fir, larch, Pinus sylvestris and hazelnut, acorn nuts and seed-based; Hunsi mainly insects, larvae, ants eggs and other small animals mainly. In the case of temporary shortage of food, squirrels and another choice. Eat tree buds in spring, summer, eating mushrooms, berries such as pallets and blueberry, to the great and abundant fall foods, eat and drink no worries, like the so what Chisha, but the most catchy or pine nuts. Turning to mining pine squirrels, but the champions of this, no matter how high the trees, where long cones, squirrels can eat to Koudao. Specific process: it first mature cones biting floor, and then down from the trees, like the primates did, forefoot Bakai cone scales, Yao Sui kinds of skin, remove seeds with pine nuts for food, it is Interestingly, when the squirrels are not easily put aside by the shock of food, but dangling escape cone.
squirrel is extremely well developed sense of smell, it can accurately identify the pine nuts in the air really, any cone of the tip of the seeds have been abandoned squirrel-free seeds, although this has not bitten the seed shell open, squirrel, or a glance that smell. There are food stocks in the squirrel instinct, autumn red pine are ripe, the squirrel ran mouth with pine Benlai transported to a safe hiding place, not fresh, or more than a dozen pills a pile, buried in the ground, reserved for winter food. Although the earth was covered with snow in winter, but the squirrels can still effortlessly find the hidden food, the individual has not found missing. But precisely because of omission can not find it buried in the ground will help the proliferation and spread of Korean pine seeds and promote the natural regeneration.
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Body shape is usually medium-sized, is cold temperate coniferous forests and mixed forests in the typical representative of the animal. Squirrel maxillary molars of 5, 4 jaw, on the number of different mandibular&nbs.. [Full]