Quality of squirrles

[Gexern]

Hi, I'm quite new to the game.

What determines quality of animals? Specially squirrles? I want some high quality hide, but it seems that the squirrles I catch are only quality 10? I caught a hen that is quality 20, so is it area specific? If I move, do I find other quality squirrles?

[OblongNoodle]

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[Kearn]

there are randomly distributed invisible quality nodes for everything that can spawn. you are basically correct that the way to find better quality squirrels is just to catch squirrels in various locations until you start finding ones of higher quality