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Chatterton crouches down, holding out a peanut to the other squirrel, who remained in the middle of the walking trail. It hesitates, and then slowly crawls over and takes the nut from her fingers. It ...

In the case of squirrels, a steady diet of nuts covered by a hard shell makes this necessary. The front of those teeth is covered with hard enamel, the back is not.

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Squirrels are herbivores, which means their diet consists of plants. They will seeds, roots, leaves, nuts, or any available plant, whether that is in a forest or the community garden.

Red squirrels are native to the UK and spend most of their time in the trees. Grey squirrels, however, were introduced to the UK in the late 19th-century from North America.

Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal Society Open Science.

Why ground squirrels change their diet? The shift may have occurred due to an increase in the vole population. Squirrels were observed hunting, eating and competing over vole prey from June 10 to ...