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Squirrels. Wikipedia. 10 May 2010.
Julian Barbara. “In Defense of Squirrels.” Journal of Maclean’s. January 18, 2010.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Protect Korean Squirrels
Squirrels belong to a large family of small rodents. There are many types of squirrels such as tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots, woodchucks, flying squirrels, and prairie dogs. Korea just has small tree squirrels. Sometimes they move on the ground, but they usually move on the trees; in addition, they usually eat acorns. Before coming winter, they save enough acorns because when they wake up after winter, the ground has no food. Squirrels are hard workers, so sometimes hard workers are called squirrels. And also, they look like cute which is the reason why many Korean like squirrels. When I was an elementary school student, I often saw the squirrels in my hometown. Some mountain climbers threw some food toward squirrels when they climbed a mountain. The image of squirrels is really friendly in Korea. And also, squirrels are very important to the food chain. According to Julian Barbara in “Defense of Squirrels”, “They spread seeds, nuts, and acorns, thereby symbiotically aiding the survival and extending the range of oaks and numerous other trees in both the urban and wild forest”(12). Squirrels are really helpful as well as friendly, so Korea needs squirrels. However, few years ago, many Eurasian red squirrels which are bigger and darker than Korean squirrels came to Korea from Japan. People thought red squirrels are cute, too. However, when red squirrels came to Korea, the number of Korean squirrels decreased. We couldn’t see Korean squirrels well because red squirrels fed on Korean squirrels; in addition, red squirrels aren’t helpful in nature; therefore, the government began to protect Korean squirrels. Nowadays, because of many other invasive species such as red squirrels, our food chain is changed differently. We need to protect our species such as Korean squirrels for normal food chain.
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Squirrels. Wikipedia. 10 May 2010.
Julian Barbara. “In Defense of Squirrels.” Journal of Maclean’s. January 18, 2010.
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Squirrels. Wikipedia. 10 May 2010.
Julian Barbara. “In Defense of Squirrels.” Journal of Maclean’s. January 18, 2010.
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wow, I heard u said korean squirrels is small and cute. I am curious aboout that. In my country, we not often see squirrels in the street or even tree because people will catch them... it is too bed...
ReplyDeleteIt is so sad that Korea has just samll tree squirrels.. Korea doesn't have enough natural source..Korean squirrels are so cute but they are increase now.. :(
ReplyDeleteIt is so sad to hear about that red squirrels fed on Korean squirrels.
ReplyDeleteWe often can see squirrels in our campus, they are very cute. And do you konw what types of squirrels are them? tree squirrels??
Bill,
ReplyDeleteThank you for teaching us many kind of names of cute squirrels. Also, thank you for sharing the ideam that describes "hard worker" means squirrel. There are so many species decreased by abnormal nature. I agree what you say, and evenyone should protect our treasurable animals.
Korean Squirrels is really cute, i really want to kiss them. XD My father likes squirrels very much, every time when he sees squirrels, he takes many pictures. So there are many photos of Squirrels in his camara. I think when he reada this essay, he will like Korean Squirrels.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I read your essay, you always gave us good informations and good topic. I know Korean squirrels are decreasing more and more.
ReplyDeleteThey are very unique, so we have to protect them.