Both tales have touches of the pourquoi story in their explanations of why squirrels collect nuts, and both incorporate rhymes and riddles in their narratives.
Over the course of several days, the two collect nuts in their little sacks for the coming winter and spring, and store the nuts in hollow tree stumps near their home.
When we leave the next morning, we drive by Lourival and Mauro collecting nuts for their blinds.
Two of the defendants, Jeanette Ogle and Randall Sorrow Jr., both in their 20s and engaged to be married, said they had been collecting nuts so Ms. Ogle's mother could make holiday pies.
From its premiere on ABC in 1959 to its lamentable demise on NBC five years later (as "The Bullwinkle Show"), the show chronicled the adventures of a rodent named Rocky with a soft rasp of a voice, a goggled aviator cap and a penchant for collecting nuts: foremost, Bullwinkle, the walleyed, muddle-minded moose.
They hunted animals for their meat, caught fish and collected nuts and berries from the forest.
The chipmunk coaxes Timmy to eat the nuts and Timmy grows "fatter and fatter!" Goody is very concerned about her husband's disappearance, but has gone back to work collecting nuts and hiding them under a tree root.
You might just be saving yourself from wasting time collecting nuts with inferior taste.
Squirrels are funny little creatures that you see in your backyard collecting nuts and acorns for the winter.
When the nights turn colder and the sun traces a more southerly route in the daytime sky, squirrels know it's time to go collect and hoard nuts.
Asked why she was at the Health Centre, Buol tells us she had come to collect plumpy nut, a ready-to-use therapeutic food, with extra nutrients for malnourished children.
