Phil: Squirrels do not have a 100% recovery rate with their food. Phil: They know which acorn species are more perishable and they may bury like red oak nuts because they'll last longer and germinate in the spring. Phil: In 2008 study titled, Cash Protection Strategies of Scatter Hoarding Rodent,. Do tree squirrels engage in behavioral deception? It showed that in about 13% of caching events on a specific college campus, squirrels dug a hole, pretended to drop their acorn into it, but kept the acorn in their mouths and ran away. The whole food festival area can be up to seven acres wide.

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