Generally, I prefer to handle my own problem wildlife issues around my home, such as dealing with destructive garden-raiding raccoons (which once tried to reside in my attic), and I have usually been ...

I first saw this curious little animal on June 1. It was a beautiful day outside, but the cottonwood tree that grows next to my deck was in full seed-dispersal mode and sitting outside was not really ...

A red squirrel kitten that was rescued by a Center Parcs ranger at Whinfell Forest, near Penrith, has been released back into ...

It was about five springs ago when a woman who lived near Cass City called me and asked if I knew anyone local who could get rid of nuisance animals. Her husband had passed away and she had decided to ...

Deep in the woodland of Cumbria, a tiny red squirrel named Percy has just taken his first big leap back into the wild. But this story didn't start in the trees. It began on the forest floor, where he ...

Soft diet, weak jaws. If red squirrels eat too many peanuts, their jaws end up weaker than the jaws of squirrels eating natural diets, researchers report January 15 in Royal Society Open Science. The ...