A single red squirrel can eat its way through 40,000 pine cones in a year
http://www.4to40.com/QA/index.asp?counter=21&category=animal
Here's how it eats one: The squirrel nibbles out the seeds along on edge, and then, rotating the cone with its front paws, it strips out another line of seeds. Now you know. ( I had to look this up to help my sister win a bar bet.)
posted at 5:34 pm
on Sep. 1, 2005
