How is a Squirrel adapted to live in a woodland?

How is a Squirrel adapted to live in a woodland?


Thanks In AdvanceHow is a Squirrel adapted to live in a woodland?
Depends if you're talking about red or grey. UK or US.





Greys in UK have great sense of smell and can snuffle out a nut in the woodland humus. They are good burrowers and buriers and digger-upper-ers, which enables them to bury nuts for later. They have great agility - are able to jump from branch to branch and run along narrow wires (remember the assault course advert?) turning upside down as they go, using tail for balance.





Also, they are sociable and able to manipulate humans into feeding them (at least, that's what they do in the woodland in Holland Park).How is a Squirrel adapted to live in a woodland?
A tight rope walker uses a long pole to adjust his center of gravity in a most efficient way. The squirrel's long, massive and very flexible tail serves as a ';balancer'; in much the same way as the high wire entertainer uses the aforementioned ';pole';. The squirrel can thus move about the tree limbs and boughs with relative ease.





There are many such adaptations which make the squirrel right at home in hiser* niche.








*hiser %26gt; contraction of ';his and hers';
They can climb trees. There are trees in the woodland. They've adapted to climb trees in the woodland.