squirrels will eat<\/a> only the top half of a white acorn and abandon the bottom half.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSquirrels prefer white oak acorns because they have a high fat content and are not bitter. These lipids make the acorns taste good, but there are also tannins in the bottom portion of the acorn. These chemicals make the acorns bitter to the squirrels, so they shake it up to make sure it’s still edible. Scientists discovered that squirrels shake their acorns to test them for their expiration date.<\/p>\n\n
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Do Squirrels Eat Green Acorns? When assessing the nutritional value of acorns, many people are curious about whether or not squirrels eat green acorns. In fact, squirrels do eat both kinds. However, it is important to understand which kind they prefer to eat, especially if you have a large tree in your backyard. Read on … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2300],"tags":[2317],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petbrilliant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}