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  2. Drey - Wikipedia

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    Eastern gray squirrels, for example, tend to use the leaves, bark and twigs of deciduous trees such as beech, elm, and oak. Southern flying squirrels will often employ fungal rhizomorphs , deciduous leaves, bark and twigs in their nests, while northern flying squirrels often use shredded cedar bark (among other types of bark), lichens , mosses ...

  3. Tree squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Tree squirrels live mostly among trees, as opposed to those that live in burrows in the ground or among rocks. An exception is the flying squirrel that also makes its home in trees, but has a physiological distinction separating it from its tree squirrel cousins: special flaps of skin called patagia , acting as glider wings, which allow gliding ...

  4. Western gray squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Squirrel nests are called dreys and can be seen in trees, built from sticks and leaves wrapped with long strands of grass. There are two stick nest types made by the western gray squirrel: the first is a large, round, covered shelter nest for winter use, birthing, and rearing young.

  5. Eastern gray squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Eastern gray squirrels also use dens for protection from prey and helps them look after their young. Young survive 40 percent less if they lived in a leaf nest compared to a den. Squirrels tend to claim 2-3 dens at the same time. Canopy and midstory trees are used by squirrels to hide from predators such as hawks and owls.

  6. Southern fox squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Southern fox squirrels have two types of nests, leaf nests and den nests. [6] Den nests are remodeled cavities in trees that they use as nurseries in winter seasons. [8] If den nests aren't available, southern fox squirrels will build waterproof leaf nests from twigs, leaves, moss, and grasses. [8]

  7. Why would a squirrel sit with its tail over its back? | ECOVIEWS

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    In most cases, a good first guess is that the behavior relates directly to an individual squirrel’s survival.

  8. Fox squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Fox squirrels also commonly occupy forest edge habitat. [15] Fox squirrels have two types of shelters: leaf nests and tree dens. They may have two tree cavity homes or a tree cavity and a leaf nest. Tree dens are preferred over leaf nests during the winter and for raising young. When den trees are scarce, leaf nests are used year-round.

  9. 40 Facts About Animals That Might Make You Look Like The ...

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    Image credits: an1malpulse #5. Animal campaigners are calling for a ban on the public sale of fireworks after a baby red panda was thought to have died from stress related to the noise.