The red squirrel is much smaller than either the fox or gray squirrel. Its overall body length, including tail, is about 13 inches. It weighs about half a pound on the average. The red squirrel is somewhat more colorful than either the fox or the gray squirrels. The tail is brownish red. The back and sides a lighter brownish red with gray highlights, the belly an off-white, and a prominent off-white ring around the eye. The red squirrel utilizes the smaller seeds of pines. Rather than being buried singly, these seeds are cached in large quantities in tree hollows, stumps, logs, or similar areas. The red squirrels are the noisiest of the squirrels and usually of any mammal found in the forest. They make a variety of sounds: "cherrs," chatters, Screams whistles, growls, and other sounds describable by a wide variety of adjectives. These sounds are used in a number of different ways, from expressing anger to signaling a warning.