There are nine species of squirrels in the Upper and Lower Peninsula of Michigan. To honor National Squirrel Appreciation Day ...

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) ...

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 ...

About the size of a chipmunk ... to changes in the habitat with their eating habits. Acorns and maple seeds are a prime food source for southern flying squirrels. "As they're coming north ...

researchers last summer watched as squirrels began to chase — and eat — voles, a cousin of field mice. This suggests squirrels are much more opportunistic in their diets than previously ...

A new study from U.C. Davis and UW-Eau Claire found that California ground squirrels not only eat nuts and fruit — but also hunt and eat voles, which are small mouse-like rodents. The study was ...