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Squirrels rule. Hither'southward why:

I've tried to explicate my dearest of squirrels to folks before, simply to watch them back abroad slowly and speed punch their doctor for a rabies vaccine. And so here information technology is (with pictures), twelve amazing facts about squirrels for the uninitiated.

1) There'due south a squirrel superhero: Squirrel Girl! (And Ulysses –the squirrel superhero from Kate DiCamillo's fabulous Flora and Ulysses, who writes poems!).

two) Squirrels tin jump vertically five feet, and tin spring between objects that are over x anxiety apart. Given that squirrels are less than 1/10th the size of people, if you could do this, y'all would be a superhero who could literally leap onto v story buildings and clear buses and trucks in a single spring.

3) Squirrels can sprint faster than you. (Unless y'all're Usain Bolt, in which instance you're probably faster than a squirrel. But can yous run vertically upwardly a tree at 12 mph? I didn't think and so.)

4) Squirrels are good swimmers, although they usually adopt non to. Except for Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel.

5) The college I went to had a rare white unicorn squirrel in its primal square. I saw information technology once, and information technology was one of the best days of my life.

6) In Japan, there are squirrel gardens (where you tin can pet squirrels with oven mitts).

7) The white fur on the inner thigh of a squirrel is the softest matter yous accept never touched.

8) Squirrels pull out their tail fur for their young.

9) A squirrel nest is chosen a drey. It looks like a leafy piñata in a tree, just please don't hit it with a stick.

10) Squirrels in North America used to migrate in massive numbers, following cycles of bountiful acorn harvests. When settlers get-go arrived in this country, they reported squirrels being so thick in the trees above during a migration that they about blocked out the sun. The best part — squirrels could practise most of the journey from the East declension to Indiana without touching the basis. But every bit settlers started to clear the quondam growth oak forests, the neat squirrel migrations became fragmented. Where squirrels had to cross fields, they were killed by coyotes, foxes, and other predators, including people who reported killing hundreds of squirrels (and getting three pennies a pelt). The concluding great squirrel migration was in 1968 in Wisconsin, when hundreds of thousands of squirrels were seen migrating (and dying on the highway and in lakes). I fisherman reported a wave of squirrels swimming toward his boat and nearly sinking it every bit they ran over him. Since and then, this mass migration behavior has gone extinct.*

Don't mess. Squirrels tin be fierce.

11) The Japanese flying squirrel is the cutest thing you have ever seen. (If this doesn't win you over to the squirrel side of the strength, then try number 12).

12) Squirrels have been known to gang upward and attack much larger animals. Don't believe me? Here's a  BBC report of squirrels in Russia who killed a big Rottweiler that barked at them (Note: this story is graphic and may be upsetting for some readers). Although squirrels are modest, together they are powerful.

Most importantly, squirrels are nature's foresters. According to researchers, squirrels tend to forget around x% of the basics that they bury. By spreading and burial tree nuts (like acorns and chestnuts) it's estimated that squirrels constitute millions of trees each year in Due north America alone!

*Okay, this post might seem to have very trivial to practise with writing (except for the fact that squirrels are awesome, and therefore an inspiration to every writer e'er) just for years I've wanted to write a book on squirrel migration (see #x). Problem is, when I tried to research information technology, I found that very few biologists know about this behavior, and 1 of the leading experts, Dr. Flyger, (aye, that really is his name) has passed away. And then it's been a tough one to investigate, but if you lot know whatsoever experts on squirrel migration, or migration witnesses, please send me their contact information. The wonder of squirrel migrations must be documented before all noesis of this fantastic (and now extinct) behavior fades entirely from human ken!

Final note: There is a Squirrel Lovers Club. Don't approximate. Just bring together. If you beloved animal stories and ecological thrillers, check out my latest award-winning novel: THE LAST PANTHER.

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Source: http://toddmitchellbooks.com/twelve-things-about-squirrels-that-will-blow-your-mind/

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