This finding, which mirrors many human homes around the world, has come about after scientists fitted squirrels with fitness trackers (collar-mounted light loggers and triaxial accelerometers) and ...

A young squirrel lucky enough to take over territory from an adult male squirrel is like a teenager falling into a big inheritance, according to a new University of Guelph study. Researchers found ...

In the world of squirrels, moving away from your home turf has better outcomes for males than for females, according to a new study by University of Alberta ecologists. The study uses 30 years of data ...

COLLEGE STATION – A year-long study on the Texas A&M University campus recently showed that males are more likely than females to die on the road, and scientists believe it's because the males dart ...

When squirrels grow up, they often face the tough choice of staying at or near the same location where they were born or moving on to bigger and better places. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always ...

Female red squirrels are so promiscuous that they sometimes mate with up to 14 males in a single day, new research finds. The reason, according to a study in the latest Royal Society Journal Biology ...

Researchers found that if a squirrel inherits territory from a male rather than a female, it will have about 1,300 more cones in its midden. This stored energy will keep the squirrel alive an extra 17 ...

In the world of squirrels, moving away from your home turf has better outcomes for males than for females, according to a new study by University of Alberta ecologists. The study uses 30 years of data ...