In India you have a little grey and white striped palm squirrel and a very special Giant (multicoloured) Squirrel.

In England we have the grey squirrel, which was introduced from America in 1876 and it is taking over from our lovely little local red squirrel (Scuirus vulgaris to give it its taxonomic name).  There are not many of these left in England now, although there is a bigger population in Scotland, but I am lucky in that they come to my garden to eat nuts from the hazel tree every day, which helps to keep them plump and healthy.  If they fill up their stomachs, they will bury the surplus, and they have surprisingly good memories about where they have buried them!  

Sometimes they use their tails to shade them from the sun, and sometimes from the rain.  

Collective terms for squirrels are a "drey of squirrels" (which is also the name of the nest they make to have their "kittens" in, or a "scurry of squirrels" which seems very appropriate as they certainly do scurry about, making it quite difficult to photograph them.

Rosamund Macfarlane, from the Lake District