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North American red squirrel

rodent

Also known as: Tamiasciurus

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classification of squirrel

In squirrel: Natural history
Some red squirrels (genus Tamiasciurus) and Sciurus species of temperate climates will stalk, kill, and eat other squirrels, mice, and adult birds and rabbits for food, but such predation in tropical tree squirrels seems rare.
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