Did you know?Storms provides the squirrel! That's cool!The squirrel pups are born blind and take nine days to be able to see.


The squirrel is a small rodent mammal body stretched measuring over 25 cm long with the tail is 22cm long, its tail is well peluda.Ele weighs aprox.250gThe color changes from animal to animal, it changes with the weather and seasons.In winter the fur is brown with red reflections, mixed gray cabeça.A on the back or belly is white.It has a very strong hearing and smell.He usually lives in an animal florestas.è very fast, runs and jumps a lot, it jumps from branch to branch with lots of trees facilidade.È also known to be a clever mammal.He is an animal very common in Europe, although in other continents.As the drawings he eats fruits, nuts and pine nuts preferring, for when the food is great, keep them in holes in trees, under rocks or in holes he digs, these foods are stored for when food is rare for him can eat, especially in winter.During hot weather (daytime) sleep and only leaves the burrow at dawn and dusk.He felt the changes of time, he is very restless and emit a characteristic whistle, which only emit when agitated
It reproduces or have puppies twice a year, the first in March and the second in June, may have offspring in the first 2 to 7 puppies and kittens in the second least filhotinhos.Os born blind and remain nine days.The female cares for the puppies carefully carinho.Pra love and build their nests using the same materials that the birds, and its interior filled with moss.Predators or animals that eat them are foxes, birds of prey escapes the 2 / 1 martas.Às quite easily, hiding in holes where those who can not enter.But the mink are difficult to escape because they are very fast, climbing trees with equal ease.

                                                                    Gabriela P.