Jumping
by Diana Mary Sharpton
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Title
Jumping
Artist
Diana Mary Sharpton
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
This squirrel was captured in Dallas, Texas with a Nikon camera and lens just before it scurried away. The image is in it's natural setting. Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. Five things to know about squirrels:
1 There are more than 200 squirrel species worldwide, from tree squirrels and flying squirrels to chipmunks and marmots. They're all in the Sciuridae family, which is native to every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
2. Squirrels range in size from the five-inch African pygmy squirrel to relative behemoths like Indian giant squirrel (pictured above) or China's red-and-white giant flying squirrel, both of which can grow more than 3 feet long.
3. Squirrels have four front teeth that grow continuously, at a rate of about six inches per year. This helps their incisors endure the constant gnawing.
4. Electrical lines are no match for squirrel teeth, which have been blamed for hundreds of power disruptions across the U.S. in the past 30 years — including outages that briefly shut down the NASDAQ stock market in 1987 and 1994. As the Brookings Institution points out, "squirrels have taken down the power grid more times than the zero times that hackers have."
5. Adult tree squirrels normally live alone, but they sometimes nest in groups during severe cold spells. A group of squirrels is called a "scurry" or "dray."
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September 2nd, 2019
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