How many litters a year do squirrels have?
In the squirrel world planned parenthood depends upon the summery seasons of tender shoots and toadstools, grasses and grasshoppers, nuts and berries. If the first litter arrived in early spring, there may be time to bring up another brood before these groceries become scarce. The earth is well populated with squirrels of assorted sizes and colors. They are not at home in Australia or Madagascar and naturally they avoid the polar regions. But at lest one type is at home in every other region of the earth. Some live in burrows, others prefer life in the trees and a few are aerial acrobats. Not all of them wear bushy tails and each type has its own ideas of planned parenthood. As a rule the ground squirrels devote;. the whole summer season to the tending and educating of one litter. But when conditions are suitable, many tree squirrels produce two litters a year. In the squirrel world, two litters a year seems to be the limit. The average brood is two to six. And all infant squirrels are
