http://www.talkingscience.org/2009/01/urban-wildlife-watch-squirrels-and-dreys/ TalkingScience is a non-profit organization focus on educating the general public on science through new media. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.talkingscience.org/2009/01/urban-wildlife-watch-squirrels-and-dreys/comment-page-1/#comment-34618 Jessica Kincaid Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:33:01 +0000 http://talkingscience.org/blogs/?p=1112#comment-34618 I was reading through this section about squirrels and came across a part where you said squirrels makes their nests with dead leaves. I'm not saying your wrong but I watched 2 squirrels in my back yard make their nest in mid-april. As you can imagine the leaves were quite green. Could this have been some kind of temporary nest of some kind? Why I ask if it's temporary is because I haven't seen the little guys since they built that nest. I was reading through this section about squirrels and came across a part where you said squirrels makes their nests with dead leaves. I'm not saying your wrong but I watched 2 squirrels in my back yard make their nest in mid-april. As you can imagine the leaves were quite green. Could this have been some kind of temporary nest of some kind? Why I ask if it's temporary is because I haven't seen the little guys since they built that nest.

]]> http://www.talkingscience.org/2009/01/urban-wildlife-watch-squirrels-and-dreys/comment-page-1/#comment-22159 Ann B Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:54:07 +0000 http://talkingscience.org/blogs/?p=1112#comment-22159 I've been looking for an answer to my question and have found out a lot more about squirrels than I knew before, but not an answer to my specific question which is, "I have seen dead squirrels in the road which have been run over by cars, but I have never seen a squirrel corpse in the wild, i.e. while I was walking in the woods and so on. What happens to squirrel corpses when they simply die of old age or some disease? Do they die in the nests in the trees which are then never used again by other squirrels?" I've been looking for an answer to my question and have found out a lot more about squirrels than I knew before, but not an answer to my specific question which is,
"I have seen dead squirrels in the road which have been run over by cars, but I have never seen a squirrel corpse in the wild, i.e. while I was walking in the woods and so on. What happens to squirrel corpses when they simply die of old age or some disease?
Do they die in the nests in the trees which are then never used again by other squirrels?"

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