Squirrels are protected animals. Squirrels have been listed in the vertebrate volume of China's Red List of Biodiversity, with an assessment level of Near Threatened (NT), and on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

The yellow-footed squirrel, red-bellied squirrel, blue-bellied squirrel, golden-backed squirrel, five-striped squirrel, white-backed squirrel, cryptic chipmunk, bright-striped chipmunk, pochon's long-nosed squirrel, red-cheeked long-nosed squirrel, red-legged long-nosed squirrel, orange-throated long-nosed squirrel, orange-bellied long-nosed squirrel, striped squirrel, rock squirrel, lateral-striped rock squirrel, and chipmunk have been included in "The List of Beneficial or Economically and Scientifically Important Terrestrial Wildlife Under State Protection". List of Terrestrial Wildlife under State Protection or with Important Economic or Scientific Research Value.

Life habits

The squirrel mostly inhabits the coniferous forests and mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests in the cold and temperate zones, especially in the woods on the slopes of the mountains or on both sides of the river valleys, and it mainly feeds on the chestnuts, acorns, walnuts and other nuts, and it also likes to eat the pine seeds, and it often goes to the coniferous forests to find the pine seeds to eat, and it also eats the young branches and leaves of the pines, barks, fungus, and the insects, small birds and so on. Squirrels have the habit of storing food, the fall will begin to store food, a squirrel will often be several kilograms of food in several places of storage, and sometimes see the squirrels in the tree sun food, so as not to let the food deteriorate mold.