If anyone has either trees in their yards, or if you have a bird feeder, you are familiar with squirrels. These acrobats, pests, robbers and property-damagers are present all over Ohio. They are so ...

In this week’s winter wildlife spotlight, I thought a good follow-up to feeder birds would be a discussion about their mammal counterparts that also frequently visit our residential feeding stations ...

Grey squirrels, or Eastern grey squirrels, primarily live in the Eastern half of the U.S. and southern Canada. There is also a healthy population in the U.K., where they were imported in the 19th ...

With days starting to get longer and warmer, many creatures are emerging from their winter sleep, ready to find food and restart their normal activities. Photo by Twan Leenders Winter is fading away ...

Thirteen-lined ground squirrels hibernate for more than half of each year. Studying their extreme behavior has yielded biological insights and could lead to biomedical breakthroughs. Credit: Tyler ...

A team of molecular and physiology specialists at the Yale University School of Medicine has uncovered some of the hibernating secrets of thirteen-lined ground squirrels, and have partly explained how ...

The summer foliage of deciduous trees has dropped and their bare limbs are exposed. What is discovered in the bare canopies? The bare winter tree limbs reveal what busy neighborhood squirrels have ...