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Squirrel can't stop and will not stop. Needs the vault to survive in winter. The man could consider to put a big squirrel box near on a tree from the garden and
by pvaldes 5y ago
Squirrel can't stop and will not stop. Needs the vault to survive in winter. The man could consider to put a big squirrel box near on a tree from the garden and put all the nuts inside. That would made a nice Christmas history.
Is amazing how many nuts the squirrel has harvested.
- cryptonector 5y agoNot just winter. Oaks produce huge numbers of acorns about one season every 7 years. My yard had thousands and thousands a few years ago, for example, but very few since. Oaks seem to do this to overwhelm squirrels and ensure that a few acorns manage to germinate. Squirrels that can save acorns for years will do much better than squirrels that can only save enough for each winter.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoLots of tree species do this. They sync up and every few years overwhelm whatever eats their seeds.
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- setr 5y agoSo the same prey saturation strategy as cicadas? I wonder if that also produces a prime-number cycle preference
- codeismath 5y agoPhenological event known as "masting": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_(botany) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_(botany)
- 1e-9 5y agoSimilarly, periodical cicadas synchronously emerge in great numbers (more 370 per square meter) every 13th or 17th year.[1] This overwhelms predators and it's thought that the prime-numbered intervals prevent predators from synchronizing their reproductive cycles with that of the cicadas. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodical_cicadas
- sushisource 5y agoSort of hilariously overkill. Was the little guy really gonna chow down on thousands of nuts each of which is probably a days meal for him?
- jamal-kumar 5y agoMaybe they got a family to feed Just trying to imagine the angry spousal argument over the nuts in squirrel
- jasonhansel 5y agoProbably saving for retirement.
- arnaudsm 5y agoWe have humans that save billions of US dollars, so this overkill behavior is not exclusive to squirrels.
- exporectomy 5y agoNo because humans can spend that money on things. Squirrels can't eat more than they can eat.
- pvaldes 5y agoNobody saw the new ice age coming. Nobody except Matthew, the red squirrel...
- randycupertino 5y agoAll the lady squirrels gonna be coming over to his crib for Squirrelflix + walnuts.