The squirrel

📖 In short

The squirrel is a small, nimble animal with big black eyes and a long bushy tail. We see it running on the ground and racing up tree trunks in parks and forests. It's a rodent, like the mouse.

🤩 Did you know?

The giant squirrel of Asia can be 85 centimeters long with its tail.
In the wild a squirrel lives between 2 and 6 years.
A squirrel can come down a tree head first because it can turn its back feet around.
A squirrel's front teeth keep growing all its life.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 Storing up for winter

In autumn the squirrel gathers nuts, acorns and seeds, and buries them in lots of places. In winter it sniffs them out with its strong nose and eats them.

🔍 Planting trees without knowing

A squirrel forgets some of the nuts it buried, and in spring they grow into new trees! That's how it helps plant forests.

💡 A tail for everything

A squirrel uses its tail to balance as it leaps between branches, wraps it around itself like a blanket when it sleeps, and flicks it to talk to other squirrels.