Why are squirrels called environmental experts?

The squirrel is a small and agile animal that spends most of its time in trees. Squirrels have strong hind legs and a gray, black, or reddish-brown coat. Squirrels generally have a long, fluffy tail, but there are also tailless squirrels.

Newborn pups are bare, have no fetal hair, and have closed eyes. It takes 8 days for the hair to gradually grow and more than a month for the eyes to open. It will be about another 15 days before the pups can eat things like nuts and can climb trees.

Squirrels often collect a lot of fruit in autumn and bury it in the ground for winter. But squirrels do not consume all the seeds they plant, on the contrary, more than half of them are always buried in the soil. The next spring, the seeds sprout and grow into small trees.

Scientists estimate that a squirrel stores an average of 14,000 seeds, so you can imagine how much a squirrel contributes to the forest. Therefore, squirrels are environmental experts in nature.

Squirrels collect a lot of fruit in the autumn and bury it as a reserve food. Statistics show that squirrels don't consume all the seeds they plant. In this way, when winter turns to spring, the seeds in the soil will sprout.

Scientists estimate that a single squirrel stores an average of 14,000 seeds, and with this number, we can imagine how much the squirrel contributes to the forest.

There are many animals and plants in nature, which not only add brilliant and colorful colors to this world, but also make the whole earth family in a very harmonious state. For example, the green plants we are all familiar with are diligently spitting out the old and absorbing the new every day to provide us with fresh oxygen, and many animals are using practical actions to maintain the ecological balance of the natural world. Forest woodpeckers are known as forest doctors because they constantly eliminate pests in invading tree trunks, thus ensuring that large and small trees grow healthy and strong.

Few people think that squirrels can contribute as much to the forest as woodpeckers. Squirrels are seen eating the fruits of pine, walnut and other tree species, and on the surface, the squirrels should be brought to justice in order to ensure that the seeds of the trees germinate properly and the forest grows. In fact, if we take a closer look at the whole process of squirrels eating fruits, we will change the perception of squirrels.

When autumn comes, the forest is full of fruit, and it is also the busiest time for squirrels, not only to enjoy the bounty of nature, but also to collect a lot of fruit and bury it as a reserve food, so as not to starve and cold in the winter when there is a shortage of food. A large number of statistics show that squirrels do not consume all the seeds they plant, on the contrary, more than half of them may always be buried in the soil. In this way, when winter turns to spring, the seeds in the soil will sprout, and many small trees will grow in the forest every year.

Scientists estimate that a single squirrel stores an average of 14,000 seeds, and with this number, we can imagine how much the squirrel contributes to the forest. If the woodpecker is the doctor of the forest, then the squirrel is the adoptive father and mother of the forest.

Of course, there are other animals that can behave like squirrels, forest rats also behave similarly, and some birds that eat fruit will scatter seeds everywhere through dung, which indirectly plays the role of sowing seeds. Strangely, the seeds of some plants cannot germinate and grow without going around in the stomach of birds!

Now we should know that squirrels play a very important role in the formation and growth of forests in nature, and the existence of forests is extremely critical for other animals, for us humans, and even for the whole earth. That's why we say that squirrels are environmental experts in nature.

1. Squirrels collect a lot of fruits in autumn and bury them as reserve food. Statistics show that squirrels don't consume all the seeds they plant. In this way, when winter turns to spring, the seeds in the soil will sprout.

Scientists estimate that a squirrel stores an average of 14,000 seeds, and Duan Jingshou is known as an environmental expert in nature.

2. Squirrels, belonging to the rodent squirrel family, generally refer to a large group of rodents with fluffy long hairs on their tails, there are about 58 genera and 285 species, distributed throughout all continents outside Antarctica (introduced species in Oceania).

3. Contrary to most people's impressions, the squirrel that lives in a tree, has a big furry tail, and can hold a pine cone is actually just a small branch of the squirrel family. From snow-capped mountains at an altitude of more than 6,000 meters to tropical islands in the Pacific Ocean, from the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere, except for areas with extremely harsh climates and extremely simple vegetation in the extreme polar regions or the driest deserts, squirrel species are active in various terrestrial habitats, and some also play an extremely important role in the ecosystem.