Nature Notebook

I was watching a squirrel feeding when it began to rain. His tail rose up in the air and folded over his back and he continued eating. What’s a little rain when you carry a furry umbrella? The Greeks considered that conspicuous tail when they called the animal skiouros (meaning shadow-tailed) which became the word “squirrel.”

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