Dear WW: here is a URL about it, from a prof not far from you. I didn't know that the squirrels bite the gerninating end off acorns, so that nutrients aren't used up before squirrel eats them. I guess that explains why their burying acorns doesn't bring up zillions of oak trees.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/tv/science_4.shtml