Geo-171-2014 Homework #2

Saw this rather hefty squirrel eating out of a plot of bearberries for a good amount of time before finally hopping off slowly at Tilden Regional Park. It was a mid-temperatured February afternoon in the hills of the Berkeley/Orinda area. The Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) is an animal and member of the mammal taxa, and was recently introduced to the North and Southern California regions in the past fifty years (http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/amuchli/squirrelform.htm). Fox squirrels are known to be fans of mast, tree buds, insects, tubers, bulbs, roots, bird eggs, seeds of pines and spring-fruiting trees, and fungi, and, from my own experience at UC Berkeley's campus, sometimes french fries. Agricultural crops such as corn, soybeans, oats, wheat, and fruit are also eaten. Their diets usually vary from area to area. They are the largest squirrel native to North America.

Publicado el 05 de febrero de 2014 a las 04:01 AM por e_michael