Is the big squirrel the biggest squirrel?

The big squirrel, also known as Malabad squirrel, is the largest squirrel in the world, with colorful fur, ears like a giant panda and a long tail. The spirit of nature.

In the impression of many people, squirrels are always covered in brown hair, but do you know that there are colored squirrels in the world? In Kerala, India, a photographer photographed this colorful squirrel in the Woods. After the photos were posted on social media, many people paid attention to them. Many people marvel at their beautiful shapes, but some people doubt it, because the squirrel's bright and complicated coat color makes him look too conspicuous and unreal, and because its huge size is completely different from the small and flexible squirrel that everyone remembers.

However, this squirrel is real. This squirrel is Malabad Giant Squirrel, also known as Indian Giant Squirrel. It has colorful fur, which is composed of brown, rust, blue and black. It looks extremely bright, and as a member of giant squirrels, they are twice the size of ordinary squirrels and can grow to more than 40 centimeters in length. Counting their tails, they can grow to nearly one meter and weigh 2 kilograms.

Indian giant squirrels know from their names that they are mainly distributed in India. They are arboreal animals and seldom go to the ground. Moreover, it lives in the humid evergreen forest in the southern Indian Peninsula. Although it is big, it is a shy creature like other squirrels. It is very vigilant and sticks its body to a tree when it is in danger. Moreover, their jumping ability is extremely strong. The jumping distance between treetops can reach an astonishing 6 meters. If something is wrong, it will jump up and disappear into the jungle, so it is little known.

But why do Indian giant squirrels grow such hair? Although some poisonous creatures will make their appearance bright and eye-catching, which is called "warning color" to warn predators not to act rashly, the Indian giant squirrel is absolutely nontoxic. Is it because carnivores can't see clearly that they are already big enough to grow such bright hair again? In fact, this is mainly because they live in trees and can avoid most predators on the ground. Moreover, they are mainly active in the early morning and evening, when the light is very poor. Biologists think that the spots and shadows formed by the broad-leaved forest where they live all the year round are actually similar to the spots on their bodies, but the Indian giant squirrel is not very eye-catching in this special environment.

Another guess is that many animals have different photoreceptors from humans. Some colors that we look conspicuous are ordinary black and gray to them, such as the orange hair of a tiger, which is conspicuous to people, but to their prey, the tiger is the same color as its surroundings. Although the coat color of giant squirrel is bright, it may also be a protective color for itself, which can protect itself from predators.

Nature is so magical that there are always all kinds of strange creatures.

What is the biggest squirrel in the world?

The giant squirrel is slender, with an adult body length of 35-40 cm and a tail length of 50-60 cm, so the overall length of the giant squirrel can reach 1m, and its weight is between 1000-3000g, making it the largest squirrel in the world.

There are 2 12 species of squirrels in the world and 24 species in China. Squirrels are generally 20 ~ 30cm in size and weigh 350~450g. In Gaoligong Mountain, Yunnan, there lives a giant squirrel, which is the largest squirrel in the world. Giant squirrels are Screaming Trees dogs, black raccoons, rattan raccoons, black fruit raccoons and big black squirrels.

Just by the name of giant squirrel, we can know that compared with ordinary squirrels, giant squirrels must be very big. The giant squirrel is slender, with an adult body length of 35-40 cm and a tail length of 50-60 cm, so the overall length of the giant squirrel can reach 1 m at most, and its weight is between1000-3000 g.

Because the giant squirrel is huge, its food intake is also amazing. Adult giant squirrels eat 200 to 300 grams each time and about 500 grams of fruit twice a day. So if you see many peels and shells under the fruit tree, this must be the "restaurant" where the big squirrel once stayed.

Giant squirrels have developed motor nerves and strong jumping ability. Even if the branches are 2 meters apart, the big squirrel can easily jump over them. The big squirrel is also a typical arboreal animal. Like birds, they nest in trees, so if you see a big nest in the tree, it may not be a bird's.

However, you shouldn't see big squirrels often now. In the past few decades, the number of giant squirrels has obviously decreased, and many places have disappeared. In the past, it was recorded in the literature that specimens were found in Nanfengcai, Jixian County. Now it is completely impossible to see big squirrels there again. So now the big squirrel is a national second-class protected wild animal, and the IUCN red list is listed as: endangered.