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 ...

As scatterhoarders, Sciurus carolinensis (Eastern Gray Squirrel) usually rely on food they buried during fall to survive cold winter months. However, the range of this species includes areas of the ...

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 ...

The North American squirrel is an oft-seen but under-recognized staple of North America. They operate on a low-key level but are adaptable enough to survive the waves of human development that have ...

There are two kinds of tree squirrels in Oklahoma, and we have both in the Skiatook area. They are eastern fox squirrel and eastern gray squirrel. The fox squirrel is the larger of the two. In fact, ...

New York City — They’ve been called “tree rats,” maligned in pop culture, and otherwise ignored as urban pests. But the humble eastern gray squirrel is finally getting some time in the spotlight, ...

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 ...

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 ...

At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...

I used to work at Disney World and something I always found curious was when people would stop and huddle around a patch of grass and take pictures of squirrels. Living in the US, squirrels are, like, ...

Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is pushing to label the western gray squirrel as an endangered species. This comes in the form of a proposal from WDFW to change the squirrel’s ...