One common Japanese squirrel died soon afterwards and over the subsequent days more perished, with 31 fatalities recorded by Monday morning. “The possibility of drug-induced poisoning cannot be ...

Lost your umbrella, keys or perhaps a flying squirrel? In Tokyo, the police are almost certainly taking meticulous care of it ...

Laboratory analysis concluded that the Japanese squirrels at the Inokashira Park Zoo in Musashino, western Tokyo, likely died of poisoning after ingesting a lethal cocktail of parasiticidal agents ...

Japanese social media users have fallen in love with a squirrel spotted at an animal park in Tokyo, thanks to its curvaceous anatomy. A Twitter user shared a photograph of the squirrel ...

The Tokyo Zoological Park Society said on Dec. 11 that 31 Japanese squirrels, or “nihon-risu,” died within a week of being exposed to multiple pesticides at Inokashira Park Zoo in Musashino ...

Some flying squirrels have only one mating cycle per year but others, such as the Japanese dwarf flying squirrel, have two. The time of year for mating and birth depend on the species as well.