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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1911.Timmy Tiptoes is a squirrel believed to be a nut-thief by his fellows, and imprisoned by them in a hollow tree with the expectation that he will confess under confinement.
A squirrel day seems to consist primarily of burying and retrieving nuts. But upon closer observation, there's a little more to this.
Squirrels are foragers, which means that they collect food — things like nuts and berries. A squirrel may build up a cache of extra food for when they don’t have time to go out and find a meal ...
"Squirrel For a Day": The Man with the Yellow Hat has a predicament. He has to write a tribute speech for Professor Wiseman. Also, the country house cupboards are too small to hold all of their food. When Bill tells him how squirrels store food in the ground after seeing Jumpy Squirrel do it, George decides to do the same thing to their food.
The biggest source of food for tree squirrels is tree nuts. Red squirrels store nuts in a single stash (a midden) that tends to dry out, so the seeds don't take root. Fox squirrels and gray squirrels bury nuts over a widespread area (scatterhoarding), and often forget them, resulting in new trees . [51] [52]
I think a bit of squirrel biology might go down well in an article about squirrels. For example, nut storage, raising young etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.38.36 23:10, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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R. i. maxima in Kerala. The Indian giant squirrel is one of the largest squirrels, with a head–and–body length of 25–50 cm (10 in – 1 ft 8 in), a tail that is about the same or somewhat longer, and a weight of 1.5–2 kg (3.3–4.4 lb), although rarely up to 3 kg (6.6 lb).