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 ...

That said, while eastern gray squirrels or fox squirrels tend to be frequent visitors, you might stop in your tracks if you ...

Squirrels across Georgia are busy building leaf nests this month — a seasonal behavior that helps them survive the colder nights.

Watch a squirrel in Florida eating a whole lizard and then learn more about just how varied a squirrel's diet actually is!

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 ...

It's fall, which means the squirrels are out in force eating up all your bird seeds and pumpkins. Here's how to stop them.

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 ...

Every animal admitted to our Center is special and everyone gets great care but occasionally we get one that is just a little different and very rare. This happened recently when a white baby squirrel ...

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