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A southern flying squirrel trapped as part of a Minnesota study. The squirrel's big eyes and ears give it keen senses at night. (Anna Mangan, Natural Resources Research Institute) ...

The squirrels’ vole-hunting habits coincided ... “It has the potential, if we can do it right, which means going big and getting it out there,” says Linda-Gail Bekker, an infectious disease ...

Some East Bay ground squirrels have given up eating only seeds and plants and now are choosing to hunt and eat other rodents. A team of scientists spent 12 years in Briones Regional Park near ...

A recent report about meat-eating ground squirrels has freaked out Californians, but it’s really nothing new. In Wyoming, the burrowing rodents are notorious for cannibalism. (Video from study by ...

But a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of California, Davis, suggests the eating habits of California ground squirrels could be shifting. According to a ...

It's not unusual to see squirrels eating acorns or other nuts, or seeds; they are considered herbivores though they sometimes eat insects as well. But researchers now have evidence that when presented ...

they will do so.” Briones Regional Park’s squirrels will probably return to their normal diets after the vole population returns to normal, Smith said, but there are other ways eating voles ...