Why do Squirrels Hate Full Moons?

So it has been a slow week for me trying to find some hard-hitting, non-depressing news, guess nothing too irrelevant happened. So I decided to look into something that has always riddled me. Something of little significance of course but something that has fixated me nonetheless. Before I get too much more into it I would like to take this to inform the reader that this is not a blog with results, I’m merely voicing a question I have to all you out there to comment on and discuss it along with me. With that being said, has anyone ever been driving around one day and noticed a lot more road kill than usual? I’m not just talking any road kill either like possums, raccoons, or even little baby kittens named Riley that decided to wake me up at 5 in the morning today. No, I’m talking about squirrels, an unusual amount of dead squirrels. I noticed this a couple of years ago and I also noted that these unusual squirrel death counts come a night after there is a full moon. Coincidence? I think not. Now there are only two rational explanations for a happening such as this, the first there is some kind of beast that transforms on the night of a full moon only to tear these creatures (maybe its related to acorns), and the second the moon has some kind of effect on these squirrels causing them to run out onto the road and get hit by oncoming traffic. For the sake of time we will go with the latter and try to prove or disprove it. It is known that the moon has a natural effect whether its shifts with the tide in the ocean or in this case an effect on animals. Someone once told me that squirrels have receptors in their tails that allow them to detect how fast an oncoming car was going and how much time they have to move out of the way. While this does seem plausible, I was not able to find any evidence to support that they have these receptors in their tails or that they even exist. Again I, have no answer for this question I’m posting, but please feel free to add your two cents and someone please tell me I’m not the only that has noticed this strange event. I’m starting to feel like the dead squirrels are following me…