Interesting facts about proteins and squirrels

There are several species of animals, well known to most citizens and residents of rural areas. These include a cute long-tailed animal - a squirrel.

It can be found outside the forest and in the city park, and even in the courtyard of any private sector.

Squirrel: description, habits

Surprisingly cute animal, very curious in its habits - it's a squirrel. Interesting facts, characteristic of this animal, are associated with various aspects of his life.

They are smart, mobile and fast. They communicate with each other, as studies have shown, with the help of a peep and certain movements of the tail. Wool on the tail can reach a length of up to 3 cm, which makes it appear fluffy.

The head of the squirrel is rounded, with black round eyes. Long ears with tassels on the vertex. Hind legs slightly longer than front. The fingers have sharp claws.

In the summer period, brownish and red are predominant in the color of the animal, in the winter - gray and black, with small brownish hues.

The body length of the squirrel is from 12.5 to 28 centimeters, the tail - from 19 to 30 centimeters. Usual protein weighs about 300 grams.

It is for its appearance and mischievous habits that the protein is one of the beloved animals of people.

Due to the fact that the squirrels are constantly growing front 4 teeth, they have something all the time to gnaw. In this way they "grind" too overgrown teeth. If they grow heavily, the squirrels will not be able to eat properly, as teeth will not be able to prick. The fate of such proteins ends with their death from hunger.

The most interesting facts about proteins are discussed below.

Types of protein

Around the world, there are about 200 species of protein. They live on all continents, except for Australia and Antarctica.

These species are divided into three main groups:

• Wood squirrels, building nests on trees;
• Earthy, nesting under rocks in burrows;
• Flying, you can say, living like birds, high on trees.

Birth of cubs, nutrition

A squirrel protein has from 2 to 8 cubs. Blinchites are born blind, naked and deaf. A week later, wool grows up, and one eye opens after another. Under the care of the mother, babies are about 10-12 weeks, during which infants are taught the rules of behavior.

Proteins have a basic diet. These are nuts, seeds, berries, roots, bark, leaves, caterpillars, flowers, corn and so on. Among all these types of food, seeds of coniferous plants predominate: pine, fir, spruce, Siberian cedar and larch.

Interesting facts about protein can be seen by watching them in the city park or on the plot.

Proteins can also eat "animal" food, for example, eggs of birds, small rodents and lizards.

During the winter period, proteins arrange for themselves and the offspring food supplies, but often it happens that the location of many "warehouses" they forget. But the reserves are fed by many animals and birds.

Life environment of proteins, housing

Squirrel is a resident of the forest. Due to the fact that this animal usually feeds on the seeds of trees, it lives mainly in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests. They can also live in spruce forests, cedar forests, less often in deciduous forests and mixed pine forests.

Everywhere finds a way out of the position of protein. Interesting facts about these animals can be replenished and the fact that in the Caucasus and the Crimea they have mastered even vineyards and gardens.

The animal is very lively and agile, able to leap adroitly from tree to tree with the help of a tail serving as a helm.

In winter, the ordinary squirrel tries to move only along the tops of the trees, where it hides in case of danger.

Territorial instinct in proteins is rather weak, that is, there is no division of the territory into plots.

Vaults are built only on trees. In the deciduous forests, the protein lives in a hollow, laying a soft litter of leaves, grass and lichens. The nest usually ranges in diameter from five to thirty centimeters. Ordinary squirrel can take and a standard birdhouse.

Usually the animal starts several nests and changes its shelter every couple of days. So he is saved from various parasites. His mother carries his babies from place to place in the teeth.

The most interesting facts about proteins

The article already mentioned interesting facts about proteins, but the following information is more interesting and fascinating.

1. The name of the animal comes from the name of the coin "white" in the form of animal skins. This kind of money was introduced many centuries ago.
2. Usual protein in one day can clean up to fifteen fir cones and more than a hundred pine. The weight of seeds obtained from one bump is only two tenths of a gram. For one day you need to eat more than a hundred cones.
3. Curiously, before the mushrooms are hidden in the hollow, the animal first dries them on the branches.
4. It sheds protein twice a year, except for the tail. On it, the wool changes only once a year.

All the above interesting facts about proteins speak about the originality of this little cute little animal. Let's look at another amazing view.

Squirrel-fly: interesting facts

The flying squirrel is different from the known protein by the color of the coat. It has a beautiful silvery-gray hue. A long, very fluffy tail (about 14 cm) is the most important device. There are no brushes on her ears. The huge eyes are black.

The body of the flying squirrel is flat, and there is a skin fold between the hind legs and the front legs. It is a flying web that allows the fly to move easily between trees.

The tail of the squirrel serves as a device that directs its movement. Well dispersed, it overcomes the distance to 100 meters in just one jump. Hence its name also began.

A flying squirrel is usually active at night and the greater time of its life it lives on trees. Inhabit these unusual animals in the northern and middle parts of Russia. Outside the country they are found in Northern Scandinavia, Mongolia, Finland, China and Korea.

Endless interesting facts about proteins. It is curious that in the Eastern Siberia there were trips of considerable groups of these animals in search of food in the forests. Sometimes these protein masses are stretched for many kilometers. At the same time, they are not stopped even by the rivers, which they easily swim, ridiculously raising their lovely fluffy tails.