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Does anyone know what would happen to the squirrel if he/she realizes their entire year's of investment is gone? Does it have feelings to feel angry / sadness?

Would the Squirrel likely starve (or if it was a breadwinner would the whole family starve), or would another squirrel help it out?

If anyone has interesting resources to learn about squirrels that could help me investigate more please share.

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Squirrels are known to spy on each other and to steal each other's "investments." (Also, if one notices that another is watching, it will pretend like it's hiding the food here and then take it someplace else.)

apparently this is why they will pretend to bury/hide stuff in order to fake out other squirrels.

Not just other squirrels. I have seen a magpie sitting on a wall waiting for a squirrel to finish burying its nut. Once the squirrel had finished, it descended to have a good poke around the burial area.

>Does anyone know what would happen to the squirrel if he/she realizes their entire year's of investment is gone

Greys forget, reds probably don't but they are so angry fighting each other most of the time over control of territory including the caches.

>would another squirrel help it out?

They'd eat each other before starving. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/red-squir...

The ground squirrels (I see them mostly in South San Jose) live in multigenerational burrows and dont venture too far out. I bet they stumble upon other family members' caches.

I don’t know about squirrels but hamsters are known to hedge their “nest eggs” with crypto.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/crypto-trading-hamster-mr-...

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