Squirrel

Squirrels were fast talking, intelligent talking creatures of Narnia. They were quick climbers, and they lived in trees as their home, where they also liked to collect nuts. Apparently, judging by Pauline Baynes's illustrations, there are both red and grey squirrels in Narnia.

Amongst squirrels, it is considered very bad manners to watch where a squirel keeps his winter hoard of nuts, or to ask where they keep them.

Notable Squirrels

 * A group of unnamed squirrels threw nuts at Andrew Ketterley, to feed him, while they were keeping him as a pet at the birth of Narnia, in The Magician's Nephew.


 * An unnamed squirrel family who lived during the Age of Winter celebrated Aslan's return, until the White Witch arrived and turned them into stone.


 * Pattertwig the squirrel was used as a messenger and a scout by Caspian X during the War of Deliverance.


 * In The Last Battle, an unnamed squirrel, who apparently was the Head Squirrel of Narnia, was summoned forth by the ape Shift. [[image:Shiftsquirrel.jpg|thumb|centre|Shift and the Head Squirrel]]

Film Adaptations
In the 2005 film of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, squirrels were never mentioned, but in a scene when the Pevensies and the Beavers were running from the Secret Police, Lucy trips back from a family of squirrels that the witch had turned to stone.

In the 2008 film of Prince Caspian, Pattertwig the squirrel made two brief appearances.

Squirrels were absent in Telmarine Castle Night Raid, but they appeared in the Second Battle of Beruna where they fight the Telmarine army.