Were there squirrels in ancient rome?

Question

Were there squirrels in ancient rome?

Answer 1

no!!Squirrels are rodents are natives of North America

Answer 2

no..squirrels are from the new world believe or not..I dont remember seeing them in Germany..I used to hunt squirrels..they are good eatting..we would stuff the chest cavities with stuffing and bake them..yee haw..

Answer 3

Not answering the question properly but in the UK we have a native red squirrel population which the American grey squirrel has decimated.

Answer 4

How far back did the squirrel exist?

What if I told you that squirrel's lived 130 million years ago?

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stori...

ok, how about...

"The fossilized remains of 25,000-year-old ground squirrel nests..."

http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu_news/archi...

But to answer your question definitively...

YES, there were squirrels in ancient Rome...

"About this area of Rome - Esquilino:

The Esquiline Hill is one of the famous seven hills of Rome. It gets its name from all the squirrels which used to live there before it was fortified in 510 BC."

http://www.hotelrome.net/esquilino-hotel...

Answer 5

Are you nuts? bad joke. I'd say yes, sure, why wouldn't there have been?