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Can't remember author/title of a GREAT book I read on squirrels?

The book had a table of the various nuts and seeds squirrels eat and their nutritive content. It also quoted studies like from Harvard which showed squirrels are the enemies of trees since they ALWAYS find cached nuts (they smell hem under 2 feet of snow!). I wish I had bought the book and need to reference it now. Help?

Update:

I found a site which lists the nutritive value and attractiveness to various wildlife of the mast trees I am considering planting: http://reference.allrefer.com/wildlife-plants-anim... (this is for the chapter on Picea Glauca).

I would still like to find that useful squirrel book or any other great websites like above. Thankx

Update 2:

Harvard did a study in which they buried 2,000 nuts in the fall and marked their locations on a map - no squirrels saw them do it. In the spring they dug up each site and none of the nuts were still there.

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  • 7 years ago

    Always find cached nuts? You have to be kidding. I suspect that the Harvard University Press has editors that would not let THAT slip through.

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