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Squirrels are generally small animals, ranging in size from the African pygmy squirrel and least pygmy squirrel at 10–14 cm (3.9–5.5 in) in total length and just 12–26 g (0.42–0.92 oz) in weight, [8] [9] to the Bhutan giant flying squirrel at up to 1.27 m (4 ft 2 in) in total length, [10] and several marmot species, which can weigh 8 kg ...
Some scientists also suggest that, because of the similar genetics, fox squirrels north of the Florida Caloosahatchee river should all be grouped into southern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger niger). [10] The Latin name is formed from the Greek word sciurus meaning "shade tail" and the Latin word niger meaning "black". [11] [12]
The motor rotor shape is a cylinder mounted on a shaft. Internally it contains longitudinal conductive bars (usually made of aluminium or copper) set into grooves and connected at both ends by shorting rings forming a cage-like shape. The name is derived from the similarity between this rings-and-bars winding and a squirrel cage.
The name "Sciurini" was first employed by Hermann Burmeister in 1854, who used it for the entire squirrel family. [4] In his influential 1945 classification of mammals, George Gaylord Simpson included four genera of squirrels in Sciurini, which he recognized as one of eight tribes within the subfamily Sciurinae (including all squirrels except the flying squirrels): Sciurus, Syntheosciurus ...
Squirrel: squeak Swan: cry, trumpet, bugle Trumpeter swan: Tapir: squeak [49] Tokay gecko: croak [50] ... List of animal names; List of onomatopoeias "Old MacDonald ...
Pine squirrels, Tamiasciurus species, are small tree squirrels with bushy tails. Along with members of the genus Sciurus, they are members of the Sciurini tribe.. The name Tamiasciurus comes from Greek wiktionary:ταμίας tamías ‘steward, dispenser’ and wiktionary:σκίουρος skíouros 'squirrel'.
The currently accepted scientific name for Abert's squirrel is Sciurus aberti Woodhouse, 1853. [4] Woodhouse had initially described the species as Sciurus dorsalis in 1852, but this name turned out to be preoccupied by Sciurus dorsalis Gray, 1849 (now a subspecies of variegated squirrel S. variegatoides), and thus the present species was renamed.
A young red squirrel. Jess Squirrel: Brian Jacques: Redwall & Mattimeo: A red squirrel who is an excellent climber. Morwenna: Robin Jarvis: The Oaken Throne: An evil black squirrel who betrayed the Starwife, queen of the squirrels, and allowed enemies to attack the realm of Greenreach. Perri Felix Salten: Perri: A female red squirrel who lives ...