Allison and I were watching a video we got from the Library the other day (Let’s hear it for free videos from the library) called “the life of mammals” or something like that. It had this guy on it way older and only slightly less crazy than Steve Irwin, the “croc hunter” and he was talking about (amongst other things) grey squirrels. He said the craziest thing about them. Apparently they eat a lot of acorns (no surprise there), mainly acorns from the white oak and the red oak. Here’s the thing though, white oak acorns germinate (begin to sprout) right away, so they only last for a little while as a good food source. Red oak acorns don’t germinate until spring, so they can be stored away and eaten later. A grey squirrel knows the difference and will usually eat white oak acorns right away and bury red oak acorns to eat later. Here’s the really crazy part though, if there aren’t enough red oak acorns to save for later, a squirrel will figure that out, and will cut a little hole at the bottom of a white oak acorn to eat the tiny seedling in the seed, so the seed won’t germinate and the food in the acorn will be good months later. How crazy is that! A little squirrel figures out that it can eat a little part out of an acorn and it will be good months later. Here’s the cool part though, God did that. God made everything, and he made it all good. God made it to all point to him. So next time you see a squirrel think about acorns and how smart squirrels are and how amazing God is and praise him because of it.
