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  2. Eastern gray squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Eastern gray squirrels are crepuscular, [24] or more active during the early and late hours of the day, and tend to avoid the heat in the middle of a summer day. [40] They do not hibernate. [41] Eastern gray squirrels can breed twice a year, but younger and less experienced mothers normally have a single litter per year in the spring.

  3. Squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Squirrels, being primarily herbivores, eat a wide variety of plants, as well as nuts, seeds, conifer cones, fruits, fungi, and green vegetation. Some squirrels, however, also consume meat, especially when faced with hunger. [21] [32] Squirrels have been known to eat small birds, young snakes, and smaller rodents, as well as bird eggs and insects.

  4. Fox squirrel - Wikipedia

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    The fox squirrel (Sciurus niger), also known as the eastern fox squirrel or Bryant's fox squirrel, [3] is the largest species of tree squirrel native to North America.It is sometimes mistaken for the American red squirrel or eastern gray squirrel in areas where the species co-exist, though they differ in size and coloration.

  5. American red squirrel - Wikipedia

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    In The Yukon, extensive behavioral observations suggest white spruce seeds (Picea glauca) comprise more than 50% of a red squirrel's diet, but squirrels have also been observed eating spruce buds and needles, mushrooms, willow (Salix sp.) leaves, poplar (Populus sp.) buds and catkins, bearberry (Arctostaphylos sp.) flowers and berries, and ...

  6. How To Keep Squirrels Away From Your Home And Garden - AOL

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    Gray squirrels are active during the day, while flying squirrels are active at night, says Mengak. If you discover a squirrel nesting in your home or shed, look for its entryway into the structure.

  7. Golden-mantled ground squirrel - Wikipedia

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    It is omnivorous, feeding on pine nuts, acorns, herbs and shrubs, fungi, many kinds of insects, eggs, young birds, lizards, carrion, and human foods when available. [2] This species caches food near its burrow, especially during the late summer and fall. [2] The squirrel has also been known to "beg" for human food at the wildlife urban ...

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

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    There are two types of caching strategies squirrels use: larder hoarding and scatter hoarding. When larder hoarding, the squirrel chooses one or two strategically located spots to store their ...

  9. Southern flying squirrel - Wikipedia

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    Their eyes do not open until they are 24–30 days old. Mothers wean their young 65 days after they are born. The young then become fully independent at around 120 days of age. Southern flying squirrels show substantial homing abilities and can return to their nests if artificially removed to distances of up to a kilometer. Their home ranges ...