Sciurus carolinensis: Eastern Gray Squirrel
I. The Introduction A. The scientific name: Sciurus carolinensis. B. The common name(s): Eastern gray squirrel, grey squirrel, cat squirrel, or migratory squirrel (Smithsonian, n.d.). C. The area of residence: North America, New Jersey and Southampton Township for the city. D. The specific biome: The temperate deciduous forest or woodlands.
II. The Body A. Background:
a. Sciurus carolinensis normally have a narrow, elongated body. Their fur is of a mixture of dark brown, black, and gray covering from head to tail on the backside and all four paws, with a white chest and belly.
b. They live in the treetops and travel through them. If they have to swim, it is with the tail flat and …show more content…
Conclusion: A. The Sciurus carolinensis or most common is the gray squirrel, which prefers to live in the deciduous temperate forests in North America. B. Since they conceive approximately 2 to 8 a litter, roughly only half of the litter will survive their first year. The young females who do survive, can breed for 8 years or more and twice a year. C. The Sciuridae are rodents that are diverse, morphologically primitive, and geographically sophisticated mammals, that dates back to Pliocene (Mercer & Roth, 2003). D. They are important to the ecosystems as they eat tree seeds and bury the food for later which sometimes they cannot find or they have died, thus helping a new tree to grow. They eat fungus, nuts, grains, berries, insects, and other small animals and are prey for other species. E. The Sciurus carolinensis communities have a dominance hierarchy, in which they may use the position of their tail to communicate for dominant relationship (M. Pardo, S. Pardo, & Shields, 2014).
IV. Reference section: Basgall, M. (2003, February 20). Squirrels' Evolutionary Family Tree