The subspecies Manchurian squirrel is widespread in the Primorsky and Khabarovsk Territories, as well as in Korea. It feeds on the seeds of coniferous trees: spruce, pine, cedar, fir, larch. In the southern regions, where oak forests grow with hazel undergrowth, he does not disdain acorns and hazelnuts. In addition, the protein is happy to consume mushrooms, buds and tree shoots, berries, tubers and rhizomes, lichens, and herbaceous plants.
... Falling snow serves as an impetus for eating stocks. Very rarely, with shallow snow cover and the presence of cones on the cedars, squirrels continue to create stocks of nuts in December, digging up snow and hiding them under fallen leaves.
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