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 ...

Squirrels and oak trees have a tight relationship. Oaks provide the main food for some squirrel species, and squirrels ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To survive this week’s historic heat wave, much of the Bay Area’s wildlife is finding relief in deep burrows, damp mud or dense underbrush. But baby tree squirrels, unable to dig or climb, are ...