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Prevost's squirrel - CALLOSCIURUS PREVOSTI
Possibly Endangered
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
The Name "Squirrel": "Squirrel" comes from the Middle English word
"squyrel," which came from the Greek "skiouros" for the animal.
Notice that the family name for these animals is "Sciuridae," which
may also be the derivation of our word "scurry."
Location: Southern Asia.
Habitat: Terrestrial. Forests.
Description: The coat of this squirrel has three different colors: the top of the animal is black, the underside is red-brown, and the strip where the two colors meet is white. The length of the squirrel is about ten inches, with another nine inches for its tail. It weighs a little over a pound.
Behavior: Prevost's squirrel is solitary, lives in trees, and is active during the hours of daylight. Its diet consists of seeds, nuts, fruit, flowers, birds' eggs, and insects. At night it rests in the hollows of trees or in nests built of leaves and twigs.
Reproduction: The gestation period is unknown, but we do know that the female gives birth to 3 or 4 young per litter.
Note: The genus Callosciurus (Oriental tree squirrels) comprises about 20 species. They are the most brightly colored of all the squirrels. The coat ranges from white to gray tinted with brown: the lower parts of the body are red-brown, and in some species the legs are brown.
Go to the Rodents Page to learn more about all the gnawing animals.
Or go to the Squirrel Index to study other
squirrels.
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