Among the several squirrels that clean up under our bird feeders, there recently have been two with no hair on their tails, a reader wrote recently. “They look like rat tails. Can you shed any ...

From head to body, the squirrel is about 35 centimeters long (and twice as large as most tree squirrels), yet with its tail, it can look as big as a silvered leaf monkey that’s over twice its size.

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