History of the Grey Squirrel by: Eddie and Zack



The Grey Squirrel is a huge species.

There are 365 squirrel or squirrel related animals.

It belongs to the Rodentia with 1650 species.

The Grey squirrel is the most common tree squirrel.

There are many names for the Grey Squirrel.

It is one of the few animals to date back and coexist with humans.

The latin word for squirrel is Sciurus.

Part of sciurus family species named sciurus carolinensis.

The Greeks first sighted the grey squirrel and the called the grey squirrel Skiouros because skia means shade.

Oura means tail, and alltogether means,”he who sits in the shadow of his tail."

Hundreds of years later than when the Greeks called it Skiouros the French called it “esquirrel”.

The word squirrel was first specified in 1327 by the same French man who created the word “esquirrel”

A 100 years after the Greek`s first sighted it and called the grey squirrel Skouiros.

There are a lot of fun facts about the Grey Squirrel.

In the 1840s John Audobon noted that a different group of squirrels were taking long periods of time by themselves for a longer migration time than the Grey squirrels and thought they were a different species.

He named them s. migratorius.

The squirrel dates back from 50,000,000 years ago,from a fossil in North America. Introduced in Great Britain in 1876 at a place called Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire.

The grey squirrel was first sighted in Columbia and was caught near a place called Brough in 1944.