“We had never seen this behavior before.” Most people are very familiar with squirrels, accustomed to seeing the animals on their streets or in their yards. And Smith is even more so—since ...

“We had never seen this behavior before. Squirrels are one of the most familiar animals to people," said one scientist Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Researchers said in a new study that they were stunned to witness California ground squirrels, who mostly eat nuts and seeds, hunting and eating voles.

A UC Davis study found a population of Bay Area ground squirrels hunting and eating voles, suggesting the species may be more flexible in its diet than previously thought.

According to a release from UC Davis, widespread carnivorous behavior has been documented for the first time among squirrels just outside the San Francisco area. The study, published in the ...

Originally, this interest in squirrel populations started as a long-term study in the San Francisco Bay Area of these squirrels’ social behavior by Jennifer Smith, associate professor of Biology ...

Winter can be a tough season for squirrels as natural food sources become scarce and the cold weather challenges their ...

A new study showed evidence for the first time of a species of California squirrel's "widespread" hunting of other rodents. The study focused on California ground squirrels at a park in Contra ...

The gray squirrel’s appearance differs seasonally. The yellowish brown summer coat becomes thicker and gray in winter, the pelage of some individuals strikingly silver-gray. Underparts and eye-rings ...

During the summer of 2024, researchers at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County, Northern California, documented unprecedented behavior in California ground squirrels: hunting and consuming ...

This, the Adjidaumo of Longfellow’s celebrated poem Hiawatha, is the voice of the Adirondack’s brooding forests. The red squirrel’s appearance varies seasonally. The paler, reddish to olive gray coat ...