SD: I know, so if they’re burying nuts primarily between mid-August and the end of November, which is when most tree nuts mature, they’re basically burying 30 nuts a day. Another layer to this is that many squirrels actually steal nuts from other squirrels. Like how many hidden nuts do squirrels actually recover? SD: Yeah, so one urban study estimated gray squirrels retrieve about 85 percent of their cached nuts, or, you know, whatever else they’re burying. SD: And they’re really, really smart about the timing of how they eat things too.