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Weight Loss/Maintenance

Beringia

(4,574 posts) Mon Sep 2, 2019, 08:20 AM Sep 2019

I was doing calculations on squirrel calorie needs

I read that a 500 g squirrel needs 140 calories a day. A human weighing 140 pounds or 68,000 g needs 2000 calories a day.

So a squirrel needs to eat 28% in calories of its weight each day.

And a human needs to 3% in calories of its weight each day.

(I don't know if I am using the correct logic, but I think that works out right).

Squirrels really need to eat a lot. It works out to giving them 25 almonds a day minimum. I used to think giving them 5 would fulfill their needs for the day, ha!

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I was doing calculations on squirrel calorie needs (Original Post) Beringia Sep 2019 OP

Well, Newest Reality Sep 2019 #1

😊 Beringia Sep 2019 #2

Q: How many calories can a squirrel consume ? eppur_se_muova Sep 2019 #3

its all that tail flicking lapfog_1 Sep 2019 #4

Newest Reality

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1. Well,

Reply to Beringia (Original post)

Mon Sep 2, 2019, 08:28 AM

Sep 2019

That may be a sign that you are going nuts!

Did you also know that squirrels, surprisingly, can live up to 25-years? So, yeah, that one with the dull fur and snarled tail may have been around for a while, so don't tell them your secrets.