Except for Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel.ĥ) The college I went to had a rare white unicorn squirrel in its central square. But can you run vertically up a tree at 12 mph? I didn’t think so.)Ĥ) Squirrels are good swimmers, although they usually prefer not to. (Unless you’re Usain Bolt, in which case you’re probably faster than a squirrel. Given that squirrels are less than 1/10th the size of people, if you could do this, you would be a superhero who could literally jump onto five story buildings and clear buses and trucks in a single bound.ģ) Squirrels can sprint faster than you. So here it is (with pictures), twelve amazing facts about squirrels for the uninitiated.ġ) There’s a squirrel superhero: Squirrel Girl! (And Ulysses –the squirrel superhero from Kate DiCamillo’s fabulous Flora and Ulysses, who writes poems!).Ģ) Squirrels can jump vertically five feet, and can leap between objects that are over ten feet apart. I’ve tried to explain my love of squirrels to folks before, only to watch them back away slowly and speed dial their doctor for a rabies vaccine.
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