North American Tree Squirrels

Locations
Call Number: 599.36 St
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	599.36 St	4-week checkout	On Shelf

1. Why squirrels? -- 2. The squirrel body plan -- 3. The habitat -- 4. The diet -- 5. Patch use -- 6. The cache -- 7. Of seeds and squirrels -- 8. Reproduction -- 9. Social behavior -- 10. Population ecology.

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A fascinating, if technical, book on squirrel behavior submitted by peteralway on October 1, 2019, 7:02pm North American Tree Squirrels is not a field guide to identifying squirrels, but rather an in-depth study of the behavior of Gray Squirrels and Fox Squirrels (Fox Squirrels are the common big brown squirrels with orangish undersides you see on the U of M campus and all over Ann Arbor. We also have Gray Squirrels in some parts of town). Sometimes the language is a bit on the dry and academic side, but it covers tree squirrel behavior, and how researchers study it, in some depth. Topics include Food choices (including when a squirrel decides to eat a nut on the spot, or, uh, squirrel it away), territories, mating (the mating chase would put a Klingon to shame), group vs. solo living, social interactions, and other topics vital to squirrel survival.

Strong points include tons of particulars. The weak point would be that this was written by a narrow specialist, and sometimes is lacking in a broader view. And while usually the technical behavioral terms are defined, occasionally one is left puzzled over terms that go undefined.