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most rodents (for ex: mice, rats, gerbils, and squirrels) use their tail to balance when they're up high. However, some animals don't go up high and don't need their tails for balancing; beavers use their tails to pack much and wood together to make a dam.
it helps them camoflage in there environment
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∙ 13y agoThey have bushy tails to use as a ruder, sort of, it is to steer them when they 'fly' (really just jump and glide) and when the are walking and climing they use it as balance. Its bushy because a.) to keep wrm (when it is cold they rap it around them) and b.) it is the perfect balance and size. Hope this helped you!
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∙ 16y agoSo they can keep their balance while jumping, scurrying, eating, and staying on trees.
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∙ 13y agoTheir tails are bushy and warm. They use them to keep themselves warm.
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∙ 12y agoto attract friends
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What kind of squirrel has a white nose and tail and one white spot on its back and the rest of it looks like a grey squirrel?
It could be an Albino squirrel are just a Grey squirrel with a little white on it.
How rare is it for a gray squirrel to have a white tail?
pretty rare
I recently saw a black squirrel with a white nose He was bigger than most squirrels and walked like a bear not a squirrel but had a squirrel tail What could he be?
It is an Eastern Fox Squirrel
Recently I saw a black squirrel with a white nose He was bigger than most squirrels and walked like a bear not a squirrel b but had a squirrel tail What could he be?
a raccoon
What type of squirrel is 2-3 x larger is brown has a longer tail and white on face and tip of ears?
perhaps a fox squirrel
Can a squirrel sever its tail?
A squirrel uses its tail for many things. For example, they use it as a parachute. Squirrels are not able to sever its own tail.
What is a poop squirrel?
A poop squirrel only exists in my dreams. (its a squirrel with poop instead of a tail)
What kind of squirrel has a gray body and red tail?
a red squirrel?
What is a large brown furry animal with a bush tail and white face that is digging up your grass?
An Albino/Brown squirrel. :]]
What if a squirrel doesn't have a bushy tail?
it would not matter the chinchila is a type of squirrel without a bushy tail it would survive
What do you call squirrel's tail?
bush
What is the tail span of a squirrel monkey?
The tail span of a squirrel monkey is 14-18 inches long and it has a black spot a the tip of the tail. An interesting fact about tails are, small squirrel monkeys have a strong tail to grasp onto things and the adult squirrel monkeys have but not as strong, but they use them to grasp on to things suck at branches of a tree.
