Squirrels can heat up their tails to ward off predators. California ground squirrels have an interesting way of scaring ...

The gray squirrel’s appearance differs seasonally. The yellowish brown summer coat becomes thicker and gray in winter, the pelage of some individuals strikingly silver-gray. Underparts and eye-rings ...

Gray squirrels are also indicted as a U.S pest, especially by suburban residents who like to feed birds. As all who put out ...

Another fun fact: Many people kept wild squirrels as pets in the 1700s. Benjamin Franklin was known for bringing squirrels to England as gifts. The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is not ...

In the United Kingdom, gray squirrels are an exotic species, first introduced in the 1870s. While the gray squirrel population has grown to an estimated 2.7 million, native red squirrels have declined ...

Squirrels and possums apparently think being king of the road means piling up the most road-kills for your species. Although possums ordinarily win the I-got-hit-by-a-big-truck award, squirrels ...