Massive waves of squirrels once roamed America. No one knows why.
In the end, no one could be sure why potentially millions of squirrels decided to get a move on en masse.
Koprowski said a combination of factors could be at work in a squirrel exodus. One year’s bumper crop of seeds and nuts can produce a bumper crop of baby squirrels. If that’s followed by a sparse acorn year, squirrels may decide to leave in search of food. Because gray squirrels live in communal groups of related females, it may be easier for them to decide to get going.Advertisement“We don’t have the extensive continuous forests that we once had,” he said.
The most vivid accounts of squirrel eruptions date to a time when old growth forests had yet to be logged, when bison roamed the West and flocks of passenger pigeons darkened the skies. Just imagine: Squirrels as far as the eye could see.this description from 1811 : “A countless multitude of squirrels, obeying some great and universal impulse, which none can know but the Spirit that gave them being, left their reckless and gambolling life, and their ancient places of retreat in the north, and were seen pressing forward by tens of thousands in a deep and sober phalanx to the South.”It’s time for my 13th annual squirrel eruption. All this week I’ll be featuring squirrels. Please join my deep and sober phalanx.
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