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a paranoid genius that buries fortunes it can't remember, accidentally planting forests.
means a small, bushy-tailed rodent that climbs trees and hoards nuts, often forgetting where it stashed them.
from From Old French 'escurel,' which came from Latin 'sciurus,' itself borrowed from Greek 'skiouros' — a charming compound of 'skia' (shadow) and 'oura' (tail), meaning roughly 'shadow-tail,' the creature that sits beneath the shade of its own bushy plume.
- fake burials
- They mime hiding nuts to fool watching thieves.
- forest builders
- Forgotten acorns grow into countless oak trees.
- rotating ankles
- Hind feet swivel 180 degrees for headfirst descents.
- heat tails
- They pump blood into tails to dodge rattlesnakes.
- four front teeth
- Incisors never stop growing throughout their lives.
abert's squirrel — endemic to ponderosa pine forests of the southwestern us, weighs 0.5-0.8 kg with distinctive ear tufts
flying squirrel — glides up to 50 meters using patagium membrane between limbs, found across north america and asia
eastern gray squirrel — introduced to uk in 1876, now decimating native red squirrels across britain and ireland
kaibab squirrel — found only on north rim of grand canyon, evolved separately from abert's squirrels south of the canyon