Tree squirrel Tree squirrel Tree squirrels are the members of the squirrel family (Sciuridae) commonly just referred to as "squirrels". They include over a hundred arboreal species native to all continents except Antarctica and Oceania. They do not form a single natural, or monophyletic group; they are related to others in the squirrel family, including ground squirrels, flying squirrels, marmots, and chipmunks. The defining characteristic used to determine which species of Sciuridae are tree squirrels is dependent on their habitat rather than their physiology. Tree squirrels live mostly among trees, as opposed to those that live in burrows in the ground or
Fauna of Honduras Fauna of Honduras The republic of Honduras is a Central American country, geographically situated inside the tropics, this habitat allows thousand of species to adapt easily to its lands, therefore has a wide variety of flora and fauna species, humans among them. Many of these species are becoming extinct, which has posed to the Honduran government, offices and naturalist organizations that promote and look after the protection so much the biodiversity of species, like the existent natural reservations. Fauna in Honduras is very rich and varied. The most common are arboreal or live in the fluvial currents lacustrine waters. Big