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6 unusual facts about squirrel


Eco Creatures: Save the Forest

Eco Creatures uses the stylus to control three types of small rodents; a Squirrel called Ecolis, a Flying squirrel called Ecomon, and a Beaver called Ecoby.

Exeter, Ontario

The community proclaims itself the "Home of the White Squirrel", owing to the presence of the unusually-coloured mammals.

HMS Squirrel

Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Squirrel after the animal, while four more carried the name while serving as the fishery protection vessel.

Mitchell Guist

On Swamp People they would regularly be featured hunting for their dinner which included Alligator gar, Blue catfish, Crayfish, Cottontail rabbit, Squirrel, Bullfrog, Alligator Snapping Turtle, and once by accident an American Alligator.

Sierra de San Pedro Mártir National Park

Throughout the park there are a great variety of mammals: Mule Deer, Bighorn Sheep, Cougar, Bobcat, Ringtail Cat, Coyote, Rabbit, Squirrel and more than 30 species of Bats.

Tak 2: The Staff of Dreams

Squirrel: Squirrels throws acorns at the nearest target when angered.


Animals of Yellowstone

Squirrel, Rabbit, vole, mice, and shrew species are common, but many are nocturnal and rarely seen by visitors.

Black giant squirrel

Among the better places to sight the black giant squirrel is the Kaziranga National Park in the state of Assam, India.

Bulgarka Nature Park

Many wild animals, such as the Eurasian wolf, fox, the golden jackal, Eurasian brown bear, wild boar, red deer, roe deer, hare, eastern hedgehog, squirrel, badger, mink and others inhabit the forested lands of the Bulgarka Park.

Canaan Mountain Wilderness

Riparian areas are found along South Creek, Water Canyon Creek, Squirrel Creek and several other drainages; maidenhair fern, shooting star, scarlet monkeyflower, and columbine grow in hanging gardens by cliff-side springs and seeps.

Cascade, Colorado

Grouse, squirrels, birds and some wild animals are native to the canon.

Caucasian squirrel

The Caucasian squirrel (or Persian squirrel) (Sciurus anomalus) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece (only in the island of Lesbos), Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.

Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

Outpatient services are located in Squirrel Hill, as well as at the Children's Institute South location in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, the East location in Norwin Hills, Pennsylvania, and the North location in Wexford, Pennsylvania.

Chris Zurawsky

Chris is a member of St. Rosalia Parish, in Greenfield, as well as the Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition, the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, and the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.

Complex-toothed flying squirrel

In Traditional Chinese medicine the feces of the squirrel, known as the Five Spirits Grease (五靈脂, wǔ líng zhī) are believed to help against ulcer in the duodenum.

Crasher Squirrel

The appeal of the picture is related to both the fact that the squirrel is perfectly in focus, and that its pose is reminiscent of the gopher from Caddyshack, with "paws held at chest level, eyes staring dead at the camera", according to Mike Celizic of The Today Show.

Fire in the Abyss

The last which recorded history knows of Gilbert is that he and his ship the "Squirrel", were lost in a severe storm off Newfoundland in 1583.

Fly tying

Rabbit, mink, muskrat, fox, bear, squirrel and other furs, deer, elk, moose hair and chicken, pheasant, turkey, duck, goose and partridge feathers were and still are commonly incorporated into artificial flies.

Grizzled giant squirrel

The grizzled giant squirrel (Ratufa macroura) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa found in the highlands of the Central and Uva provinces of Sri Lanka, and in patches of riparian forest along the Kaveri River and in the hill forests in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of southern India.

He Thinks He's Ray Stevens

Stevens uses comic storytelling to frame what occurs when a young adolescent boy catches a squirrel (while visiting his grandmother in Pascagoula, Mississippi), brings it into church, where several self-righteous members – all with sinful secrets to hide – are prominent members ... and the squirrel breaks loose from a box the boy has kept it in.

Indian palm squirrel

During the construction of the Rama Setu (bridge) at Rameswaram by Lord Rama and the Vanara Sena, a little squirrel also contributed in its own little way.

Induction motor

Three-phase squirrel-cage induction motors are widely used in industrial drives because they are rugged, reliable and economical.

Kolyma River

In February 2012, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that scientists had grown plants from 30,000-year-old Silene stenophylla fruit, which was stored in squirrel burrows near the banks of the Kolyma river and preserved in permafrost.

Lew Lewis

His album Save the Wail (1979) produced by Paul Riley, featured Buzz Barwell (ex Dr. Feelgood) and Bob Clouter (Ex Mickey Jupp's The Orioles) on drums, Rick Taylor and Pete Zear on guitars and Johnny Squirrel on bass, collectively known as Lew Lewis Reformer, they were, stylistically, "between pub rock and blues-rock".

Merriam's ground squirrel

The native habitat of Merriam's ground squirrel is arid chapparal environments dominated by sagebrush, and, to a lesser extent, by greasewood and shadscale.

Paul Boucherot

The squirrel-cage rotor asynchronous motor was invented by Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky in 1889 and they were being built industrially from 1891.

Pink Squirrel

In Vagrant Story, a treasure chest containing a mace named Pink Squirrel can be found in the wine cellar.

In King of the Hill, season 8 episode 11, Bill Dauterive is pretending to be a gay hair stylist and orders a Pink Squirrel when out at a night club.

Post Office Squirrel savings account

The Post Office Squirrel savings account was a New Zealand savings programme set up through the New Zealand Post Office to encourage younger citizens to save money.

Raymond S. Persi

Raymond S. Persi was also co-director of Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Ghost of Stephen Foster" music video, from the album Perennial Favorites (Mammoth Records).

Rhiwbina RFC

The "Squirrel" name and logo came about as a result of the newly formed club meeting in the Butchers Arms, an Ansells pub which used the squirrel motif as an emblem.

Sleap Airfield

The RAF finally released Sleap in 1964, but the location is still used as a relief airfield by nearby RAF Shawbury for Squirrel helicopter training.

Spermophilus brevicauda

Brandt's ground squirrel is found from the Lake Zaysan region in eastern Kazakhstan, southwards and westwards along the Tian Shan mountain range to the vicinity of Almaty, on both sides of the Kazakh-Chinese border.

Spermophilus ralli

A close relative of Spermophilus relictus, it is sometimes considered the same species, and shares the common name Tien Shan ground squirrel.

Spermophilus relictus

It is sometimes called the relict ground squirrel or the Tien Shan ground squirrel, a name also used for Spermophilus ralli, which is sometimes considered the same species.

Squirrel Records

Squirrel Records is a UK-based record company based in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, founded in 1994 by Simon Squirelle, former manager of 90's artists Candyman, The U-Krew, and the Funhouse presenter Pat Sharp.

The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show

Secret Squirrel: The adventures of a secret agent squirrel (voiced by Mel Blanc) and his assistant Morocco Mole (voiced by Paul Frees).

The Squirrel

Other artist who have recorded The Squirrel include Chet Baker, Ray Barretto, Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke, Dameronia, Lou Donaldson, Lord Jamar, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Lars Gullin, Scott Hamilton, Hampton Hawes, Jutta Hipp, Andy LaVerne, Fats Navarro, Hod O'Brien, Charlie Parker, Zoot Sims, and Martial Solal.

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

One commentator has likened Squirrel Nutkin's impertinent behaviour to that of the rebellious working-class of Potter's own day, and another commentator has noted the tale's similarities to pourquoi tales and folk tales in its explanations of Squirrel Nutkin's short tail and characteristics of squirrel behaviour.

Townsend's ground squirrel

In southeastern Idaho, the density of Townsend's ground squirrel burrows is highest on winterfat-Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda), intermediate in big sagebrush-Thurber needlegrass (Stipa thurberiana), and lowest in shadscale-Indian ricegrass (Oryzopsis hymenoides) and thread grass (Stipa comata) .

Tweenies

They also created The Fun Song Factory, Boo!, BB3B, Jim Jam and Sunny, Basil Hair The Squirrel and Entertainment Right's The Magical Lives of Toys.

Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel

They found an orphaned squirrel after Hurricane David and raised it as a family pet who would ride on their shoulders even as they dipped in the pool.

Veðrfölnir and eagle

In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, the squirrel Ratatoskr carries messages between the unnamed eagle and Nidhöggr, the wyrm that resides below the world tree.

Video Comic Book

The show panned and scanned silver age DC Comics such as Green Lantern, Swamp Thing, Sugar and Spike, The Flash, Adam Strange, Nutsy Squirrel, The Three Mousketeers, Doodles Duck, and The Atom.


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