Why is it that you never see baby squirrels?
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Sometimes the questions are better than other times. This is a better question.  Baby squirrels and baby birds also do not leave the nest until they are able to fend for themsleves. And they grow up very fast. I do not know how long it takes a squirrel to grow up, but a baby robin learns to fly in 13 days. Immagine that!!!
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From straightdope:\n\n"You don't see many dead city pigeons for a couple of reasons. The first is that scavengers make pretty quick work of them. Insects alone can reduce a deceased pigeon to a heap of feathers and bones in a week or two. Rats, dogs, or other animals may drag the carcass off into some secret corner for a late snack. City sanitation crews occasionally stir themselves to scoop up a couple.\n\nThe other reason you don't see dead pigeons is that old and feeble ones usually hole up in some out-of-the-way place so they won't be seen by predators. Nooks and crannies in and around buildings are always popular, but I'd say the pigeons' favorite spot is the ironwork underneath viaducts. I recently inspected one near the office of the newspaper that publishes my column. I found the surrounding area littered with decaying remains. Mostly these were former editors sleeping it off. However, there were a bunch of dead pigeons, too. Naturally, I paused for a moment of respectful silence. For the pigeons. I mean, pigeons and editors both do the icky on the stuff you cherish most. But at least the pigeons don't think, "Wow, now it sings.""
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The nutty squirrel is named Scrat. The movie is a COMEDY set in the Ice Age-the kids in the theater laughed their butts off when our family went. Try seeing it again, expecting nothing but to have your funny bone tickled; maybe you will be able to enjoy it!\nThe animals are migrating due to Global Warming, which is melting the Ice from the Ice Age, get it? It is supposed to be excruciatingly funny. On second thought, maybe you should just try another genre of films from now on...until you have kids!!
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They can hunker down in deep grasses. The snow and grass act as insulation keeping them warm.\n\nWhat's cooler (pun intended) than this is to look at tree squirrels, who have nests high in trees open to the blowing wind. Even they stay warm while being that exposed. The nests help trap body heat while breaking the wind.\n\nNature has some remarkable methods to keep animals warm.
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Judging by your use of the word "babies," it is apparent that you have elevated pigeons to a higher order on the grand scale of life.  Your motive is admirable and your heart is warm, but remember that nature takes care itself.  Everything has to eat.  It's been that way for a long time.  You should not try to interfere with the food chain.  Unless pigeons have been put on the endangered species list, I would just sit back and hope for the best.
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Yes, we do have lovely songbirds here but bird feeders are readily available already so you need to think of some sort of characteristic that your bird feeder has that the ones that we have do not have. You need a selling point.\n\nYour selling point should not be protection against squirrels because we don't have the American gray squirrel. The little red ones that we have don't live near people, they are very shy and do not attack bird feeders.\n\nMaybe they are easier to load, or hold more seeds without spoilage or maybe your feeder has a design that prevents wastage of seed falling to the ground. I haven't seen your feeder so I don't know how to sell it.\n\nYou can see the kind of feeders that we use on the web site of the LPO (League pour la Protection des Oiseaux).\n\nIf you can send me a picture of your feeder, maybe I can think of some more ideas.\n\n\nOh, yes, Thank you, Mr. Curious for your helpful comments.
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They sleep in nests which are made of twigs and leaves and the interior is lined with fur, feathers or other soft material for comfort.  There are normally two exits in the nest, and they are built high in a tree between two strong branches.  They build their nests high enough to provide protection from ground predators, yet not too high or the nest will be destroyed by the winds.  Squirrels also will build a nest in a hollowed-out tree cavity.
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The answer is none.\nSee, boy squirrels CAN chase tails, they don't do it though as they're all too obsessed with burying their nuts in places they then forget about.
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Well, you're not going to win this argument.  Check out this link (http://www.montereybay.com/creagrus/chipmunks.html) about North American chipmunks, which says:  Chipmunks are small striped squirrels (genus Tamias) in North America. The first thing for a field observer to recognize is that a chipmunk is different from the only other squirrel that is vaguely similar, the Golden-mantled Ground-Squirrel. That colorful squirrel is widespread and easily visible in wooded open country in the mountains throughout western North America.  Note that although the Golden-mantled Ground-Squirrel has black-and-white body stripes it lacks any stripes on the face. It is not a chipmunk. All chipmunks have facial stripes. \n\nSo yours is probably some type of ground squirrel.  Check out this site (http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/view_default.asp?searchText=squirrel&curPageNum=4) for some possibilities (with photos), so maybe you can ID it.  Hope that helps!
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Good question. Not hearing; sight. They seem to be hearing movement, but birds go by sight. I thought the same thing.
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I've never seen one, but that does not mean they don't exist.
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the reason why we cant see them is becase the are not there! but they can see us you know wile we eat poo, master you know master up and down jumping skills!
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The only one I ever see is that little brown one. Whatever that is..
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I live in Ireland and that particular species of animal is very rare here, I don't think I've ever spotted one in fact.\n\nJudging by the abuse that anyone here gets when they criticise bush or blair (I refuse to put either of those names in capital letters) this species seems to be thriving in internet land.
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Well they dont hibernate or go into torpor like ground squirrels or bears do. They have peiods, sometimes lasting several days with reduced activity, but they will emerge on the warmer days and forage for food. They remain opportunistic during the wionter months as well, if the oportunity for food presents itself, they happily respond!
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In midden piles.  Squirrels will bury large volumes of acorns, hickory nuts and walnuts underground or under a pile of leaves and forest floor litter, creating a cool, moist storage facility which they can use during the winter.\n\nLink below refers to red squirrels, but the behavior is true for gray squirrels, too.
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Baby pigeons are rarely seen as they live in nests and only leave when nearly fully grown.\n\nThe incubatoin period for common pigeons is 17 to 19 days.