Gray Squirrel

TYPE:   MAMMAL

RANGE: Eastern North America

FOOD: Nuts, insects, flowers, mushrooms, pine cones, corn, apples

PREDATORS: Hawks, owls, martens, wolves, fishers, red foxes, and housecats, humans

HABITAT: Forest, suburbs, city parks

Photo: Dr. Lloyd Glenn Ingles

DESCRIPTION Squirrels are famous for storing nuts. They dig holes and bury them, each nut in its own hole. Squirrels work fast. It takes them less than 1 minute to bury a nut. There used to be many more gray squirrels in North America. But as people turned forests into farms, the squirrels lost their homes. In the early 1900s, some scientists were afraid that they would become extinct. But they have managed to survive.

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