Smiling Squirrel ready for pose
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Smiling Squirrel ready for pose
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
I took this cute squirrel near my home. I like the way he is looking at the camera with smiling face in big round curious eyes.
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From Wikipedia, Online Encyclopedia
Squirrels belong to family Sciuridae of small or medium-sized rodents. The family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots (including woodchucks), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, and have been introduced to Australia. The earliest known squirrels date from the Eocene and are most closely related to the mountain beaver and to the dormouse among living rodent families.
Squirrels are generally small animals, ranging in size from the African pygmy squirrel at 7-10 cm (2.8-3.9 in) in length and just 10 g (0.35 oz) in weight, to the Alpine marmot which is 53-73 cm (21-29 in) long and weighs from 5 to 8 kg (11 to 18 lb). Squirrels typically have slender bodies with bushy tails and large eyes. Their fur is generally soft and silky, although much thicker in some species than others. The hind limbs are generally longer than the fore limbs, and they have four or five toes on each paw. Their paws include an often poorly developed thumb, and have soft pads on the undersides.Squirrels live in almost every habitat from tropical rain forest to semiarid desert, avoiding only the high polar regions and the driest of deserts. They are predominantly herbivorous, subsisting on seeds and nuts, but many will eat insects and even small vertebrates.
As their large eyes indicate, squirrels generally have an excellent sense of vision, which is especially important for tree-dwelling species. They also have very versatile and sturdy claws for grasping and climbing.
Squirrels breed once or twice a year and give birth to a varying number of young after three to six weeks, depending on species. The young are born naked, toothless, and blind. In most species of squirrel, only the female looks after the young, which are weaned at around six to ten weeks of age and become sexually mature at the end of their first year. Ground-dwelling species are generally social animals, often living in well-developed colonies, but the tree-dwelling species are more solitary.
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