![]() ![]() That is one seriously patient dog!!Īnd then we get to this nut job of a squirrel who takes peanuts from a guy at the park and then stashes them right back in the same person’s clothes. Next up in the silly squirrel department are the antics of a pet squirrel named Wally that likes to bury his nuts in the fur coat of the family’s St Bernard. To demonstrate just how random Gray and Fox squirrels are when they bury the nuts I included a few of the more humorous examples below.įirst up is the squirrel that stashed over 200 walnuts inside the engine bay of a car. But really, these squirrels are not overly picky about where they do the hiding. Sometimes they will bury the nuts directly under the tree where they found them, sometimes they will stash the nuts in the cavity of a tree. These squirrels will create hundreds of nut stashes of varying sizes across their territories. The most common tree squirrels, the Grey and Fox, demonstrate classic “Scatter Hoarder” behavior. Let’s take a closer look at each of these food caching behaviors. Ground squirrels like the California Ground squirrel that stash their nuts inside their underground burrows.Red squirrels such as the Pine and Douglas create a giant central storage unit called a midden which they fiercely defend.The most common squirrels (Grey and Fox) are “scatter hoarders” and will stash a nut anywhere they can.The type of nut hiding behavior is dependent upon the species of squirrels. The storage of nuts by squirrels falls into three categories: 1.3 Burrow Nut Caching Three Ways Squirrels Hide Nuts and Other Food ![]()
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