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Does a tree squirrel lay eggs or not?

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It's a mammal & being a squirrel, not a platypus, will not lay eggs. Here's a newborn squirrel It does look similar to a newly hatched altricial type bird chick (being helpless, blind and fur/featherless) but it is still mammalian and not avian. read more

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In his 1865 book Notes of an East Siberian Hunter the author A A Cherkassov writes that local peasants believed that flying squirrels lay eggs and brood young out of them, like birds. They based this belief on the fact that flying sqirrels lived in pairs like birds, appeared to fly from tree to tree, and did not walk on the ground. read more

The young are born naked, toothless, and blind. In most species of squirrel, only the female looks after the young, which are weaned at around six to ten weeks of age and become sexually mature at the end of their first year. " So, they do not lay eggs, and to breed they do it like any other mammal ; by sex. Birds reproduce using internal fertilisation. read more

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