For six to eight months of each year, thirteen-lined ground squirrels don’t leave their small, subterranean dens. Beneath ...

A team of molecular and physiology specialists at the Yale University School of Medicine has uncovered some of the ...

They have a success rate of 13 out of 17 years. Legend says the more frantically a squirrel gathers nuts means a harsh winter. There is no scientific proof of this idea. The size and amount of ...

They don’t eat or drink for the entire duration ... are also studying hunger cues and other aspects of ground squirrel’s extreme winter survival strategy–like how the animals know when ...

In the United States, northern flying squirrels are endangered in Pennsylvania. Not only do they face habitat loss from development but there’s also been a decline in the fungi they eat due to ...

Flying squirrels, found throughout Missouri, can glide through the air at night in the woods and eat nuts, fruits, berries, ...

Anyone who has any of three common birds in their garden over the winter is being urged to do something to help them out ...

Bulb planting season is in the autumn and that coincides with squirrels' habit of harvesting food for winter; a lot of their ... While squirrels do like to eat bulbs, the good news is that if ...

Damage to trees was also damage to wildlife habitat, including squirrels, the common and native mammal that had nests with ...

In the summer and early fall, the squirrels eat mature green pine cones. Over the course of winter they may switch, if possible, from pine and oaks in early winter to maples and oaks in late winter.

Birds and wildlife struggle to find food in winter, when insects are in short supply, and the RSPB is asking gardeners to do ...

The pox killed up to 80% of red squirrels over winter at one of just three sites ... lesions in his eyes and hands and that can barely eat - the virus is fatal to red squirrels He is convinced ...