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Squirrels Facts

• There are over 365 species of squirrels.
• Squirrels usually live alone, but will huddle together in nests during extreme cold.
• Winter activity is usually in the morning, followed by the remainder of the day hanging around the nest.
• Summer activity is usually in the morning, followed by an afternoon siesta, then more foraging a few hours before sunset.
• Acrobatic chasing in late winter is part of the mating ritual.
• Have you heard screeching starting in the spring? Those are baby squirrels -- kittens -- demanding food.
• Typical litter size is 3-4.
• Squirrels can eat their weight in seed in one week. (That explains a lot.)
• Squirrels, like other rodents, have front teeth that keep growing. Squirrel teeth grown six-inches per year and are worn down by eating and gnawing.
• Squirrels can reach a top speed of twenty-miles per hour.
• Squirrels have excellent jumping skills -- six-feet vertically and eight-feet horizontally.
  

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