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  2. Learn Why Squirrel’s Practice This Peculiar Behavior - AOL

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    Squirrels live in almost every habitat on the planet. ... When it’s too cold or stormy to go out and forage for food, a squirrel can stop in at their cache and grab a quick bite to eat.

  3. Eastern gray squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Larger than red squirrels and capable of storing up to four times more fat, gray squirrels are better able to survive winter conditions. They produce more young and can live at higher densities. Gray squirrels also carry the squirrelpox virus, to which red squirrels have no immunity. When an infected gray squirrel introduces squirrelpox to a ...

  4. Chionophile - Wikipedia

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    Japanese macaques can survive in cold temperatures of below −15°C (5°F), and are among very few primates that can do so.. Chionophiles are any organisms (animals, plants, fungi, etc.) that can thrive in cold winter conditions (the word is derived from the Greek word chion meaning "snow", and -phile meaning "lover").

  5. San Joaquin antelope squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, there is little activity from the squirrels during the heat of the day. Although there is no evidence of hibernation, the squirrels are not bothered by the cold and can survive temperatures below freezing, in their burrows. [4]

  6. Squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Squirrels live in almost every habitat, from tropical rainforest to semiarid desert, avoiding only the high polar regions and the driest of deserts. They are predominantly herbivorous, subsisting on seeds and nuts, but many will eat insects and even small vertebrates. [21] Many juvenile squirrels die in the first year of life.

  7. Arctic ground squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Ground squirrels live in sandy soil due to easy digging and good drainage. [7] Arctic ground squirrels make shallow burrows in areas where the permafrost does not prevent them from digging. [8] The Arctic ground squirrel inhabits dry Arctic tundra and open meadows in the most southern habitats of this species. [6]

  8. Thirteen-lined ground squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Thirteen-lined ground squirrels can survive in hibernation for over six months without food or water and special physiological adaptations allow them to do so. [6] During torpor , these squirrels maintain hydration by redistributing and storing osmolytes like sodium, glucose, and blood urea nitrogen in different body compartments (to be ...

  9. Southern flying squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Flying squirrels do not actually fly, but rather glide using a membrane called a patagium. [9] [10] From atop of trees, flying squirrels can initiate glides from a running start [10] or from a stationary position by bringing their limbs under the body, retracting their heads, and then propelling themselves off the tree.