I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). It’s likely ...

The “Squirrels are not endangered” letter (Our Readers’ Views, June 1) may cause confusion in calling for the Western gray squirrel to be removed from the endangered species list. The Western gray is ...

Depending on who you are, squirrels might be adorable or a nuisance. Regardless, they can be strange, but those weird behaviors all serve unique purposes.

While it is likely that eastern gray squirrels would have found their way to this campus eventually without help, their true origin offers a unique tale to think about the next time you are squirrel ...

Squirrels can be found in all sorts of habitats, from boreal forests to suburban backyards. But let’s be honest; you don’t ...

It’s entirely possible, even likely, that you underestimate the eastern grey squirrel. Despite having small rodent brains, they are capable of remembering, with a high degree of precision, where they ...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Individual eastern gray squirrels are all about food. They consume about two pounds of food per week. That is about 100 pounds in a year. They mainly are vegetarians, eating various nuts and other ...

Marilyn Hart held an 8-week-old Eastern gray squirrel in her left hand and a syringe filled with squirrel milk formula in her right. She used her teeth to pop the top off the syringe while the ...

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Every animal admitted to our Center is special and everyone gets great care but occasionally we get one that is just a little different and very rare. This happened recently when a white baby squirrel ...

It didn’t matter how cute Peter Hawthorne was, how much he was loved or even how many powerful friends he had on his side. In the end, there was little they could do to prevent the eastern gray ...