Types of Squirrels
This smallest member of the squirrel family is a burrower.
What is a chipmunk?
Chipmunks usually build their burrows in this type of location.
What is under a stone wall or bushes?
Squirrels are known for making this sound.
What is chattering?
The general name for the squirrel family, from Greek words.
What is Sciurus?
This is the chipmunk’s main activity in autumn.
What is storing nuts?
This squirrel has glossy fur and is driven away by gray squirrels.
What is a black squirrel?
The sleeping nest in a squirrel’s home is lined with these materials.
What are dry leaves and grass?
This is how squirrels carry their babies when in danger.
What is in their mouths?
This word means a cozy little hiding place.
What is snuggery?
Squirrels’ favorite food includes these.
What are acorns, nuts, seeds, and grain?
These squirrels are lazy and most active at twilight.
What are flying squirrels?
Flying squirrels usually nest in this part of a tree.
What is a hollow trunk?
Squirrels can do this from high branches without injury.
What is jump to the ground?
A "voracious appetite" means this.
What is eating a lot or greedily?
Squirrels sometimes nibble on these in the spring.
What are leaf buds and young shoots?
This squirrel is known to strip an entire nut tree.
What is a gray squirrel?
Tree squirrels store their food here in the forest.
What are hollow trunks or under leaves?
Squirrels are not runners, but they do this quickly through grass.
What is jump or scamper?
A "burrower" is an animal that does this.
What is digs holes or tunnels?
This squirrel stores food in underground tunnels.
What is the chipmunk?
This squirrel prefers pine cones and lives in pine woods.
What is a red squirrel?
This type of squirrel makes a spherical nest out of twigs.
What are red or gray squirrels?
This is the reason black squirrels are rarely seen with gray squirrels.
What is they are driven away by gray squirrels?
"Provident" means this in the context of a squirrel.
What is saving or preparing for the future?
Tree squirrels hide their food in these two places.
What are hollow trunks and piles of dried leaves?