Humans aren`t the only species packing on extra pounds during the pandemic. Some squirrels are letting themselves go, too.

One portly squirrel in New England is so big that it earned the nickname, `Fatty McFatterson.

Most squirrels sprint or scoot, but this one lumbers and waddles.

Many pint-sized rodents aren`t so pint-sized as they gorge on abundant beach nuts, hazelnuts, acorns and a bumper crop of mushrooms this fall, Shevenell Webb, furbearer biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, told.

`Many species of wildlife can pack on some extra pounds, but their thick, fluffy fur coat may also make them appear larger in winter,` she said.