In the streets, in parks, on trees; squirrels in New York seem to be everywhere. Their exact numbers, especially in Central Park, have long been a mystery. However, thanks to the recently released ...

This photo shows a red squirrel on the lookout for territory intruders. (Credit: Erin Siracusa) (CN) — As neighbors go, the devil you know may be better than the one you don’t. Take the North American ...

We may think of prey animals as being timid, even passive, and not prone to confrontation. Nothing could be further from the ...

The Richardson's ground squirrel weighs less than a pound, is about a foot long and is native to the northern Plains. The little creature is also a ferocious tunneler, and it's exasperating the people ...

Red squirrels have been replaced over a large part of Great Britain by the non-native grey squirrel, introduced from North America in the late 19th century. Today, the British population of red ...

The UF/IFAS Leon County Extension Office and I have been receiving a lot of calls lately about squirrels. This is no surprise, as Tallahassee is a city within a forest, and the most common herbivore ...

It’s one of the enduring mysteries of life in New York City: Just how many squirrels live in Central Park? There could soon be an answer. Counters started roaming the 840-acre park on Saturday for its ...

Among the several squirrels that clean up under our bird feeders, there recently have been two with no hair on their tails, a reader wrote recently. “They look like rat tails. Can you shed any light ...

Researchers found that red squirrels in the Yukon have a greater chance of survival when living near neighbors. These fitness benefits depended on familiarity, or how long the same squirrels lived ...