Squirrel Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
Squirrels are members of what family?
A: Sciuridae.
Squirrels are small or medium-size what?
A: Rodents.
Squirrels are indigenous to what regions?
A: The Americas, Eurasia, and Africa.
Squirrels have been introduced to what continent?
A: Australia.
The earliest known squirrels date from what period?
A: The Eocene.
Among living rodent families, squirrels are most closely
related to the mountain beaver and to the what?
A: Dormouse.
Squirrels are generally small
animals, ranging in size from
2.8–3.9 in length and just 0.35 oz in weight, to what?
A: 21–29 in long and weighing from 11 to 18 lb.
Squirrels typically have slender bodies, large eyes, and
what?
A: Bushy tails.
What does a squirrels fur feel like?
A: Soft and silky.
In general, the hind limbs are longer than what?
A: The fore limbs.
How many toes do squirrels have on each paw?
A: Four or Five.
Squirrels paws include an often poorly developed what?
A: Thumb.
Tree squirrels can descend a tree how?
A: Head-first.
How do squirrels manage to descend a tree head first?
A: They rotate their ankles 180 degrees so the hind paws are backward-pointing
and can grip the tree bark.
Squirrels are predominantly herbivorous, subsisting on
seeds and nuts, but there are still many that will eat what?
A: Insects and even small vertebrates.
Generally, squirrels have an excellent sense of what?
A: Vision, which is especially important for tree-dwelling species.
Squirrels have very versatile and sturdy claws for doing
what?
A: Grasping and climbing.
Squirrels have large gnawing incisors that do what
throughout the squirrels life?
A: Grow.
Most squirrels die when?
A: In the first year of life.
Adult squirrels can have a lifespan of how many years?
A: 5 to 10 years in the wild.
How long can some squirrels survive in captivity?
A: 10 to 20 years.
How often do squirrels breed?
A: Once or twice a year.
Squirrels are born naked, toothless, and what?
A: Blind.
The Indian palm squirrel is the most common type of
squirrel in what country?
A: India.
Squirrels cannot digest what?
A: Cellulose.
Squirrels' diets consist primarily of a wide variety of
what?
A: Plants, including nuts, seeds, conifer cones,
fruits, fungi, and green
vegetation.
Some squirrels also eat what?
A: Meat, especially when faced with hunger.
