Why do squirrels lose the hair on there tails during winter?

Is this a diesease or normal?

Why do squirrels lose the hair on there tails during winter?

Normal...Tree squirrels undergo a complete head-to-tail molt in the spring and a rump-to-head molt in the fall. Tail hair is replaced only in the spring. Also, nesting mothers will use their tail hair to line birthing nests.

Why do squirrels lose the hair on there tails during winter?

Canadian squirrels dont...odd...we do call squirrels ..tree rats here though )

Why do squirrels lose the hair on there tails during winter?

like sniper said they molt but if you are seeing squirrels with no hair on their tails then more than likely they have some form of skin disorder weather it is ring worm or something else. I would not handel them after shooting them.

Why do squirrels lose the hair on there tails during winter?

They don't here in Pennsylvania.* You must have a different species wherever you are.*

Why do squirrels lose the hair on there tails during winter?

Squirrels do not lose all of their tail hair as a matter of seasonal molting nor. A squirrel with a hairless tail is either suffering from some sort of disease process, such as mange, or has somehow otherwise been traumatized.

Why do squirrels lose the hair on there tails during winter?

not here in tennessee. as a matter of fact, save your squirrel tails. the mepps lure company will buy them from you or trade you fishing lures for them.

Why do squirrels lose the hair on there tails during winter?

We call them rats.

Why do squirrels lose the hair on there tails during winter?

In South Florida, the only squirrels that i have ever seen, that had no hair, was a couple that was too close to a woods fire %26amp; a bunch, that had been skined, in preperation for the stew pot