The News For Squirrels

On the seventh day of Squirrel Awareness Month my squirrel love gave to me Seven smelly snakeskins, Six comfy dreys, Five giant s...

An interesting article from the UC Berkeley News Center discusses the strategies that fox squirrels use when caching nuts. A group o...

On the fourth day of Squirrel Awareness Month my squirrel love gave to me Four cups of nuts, Three Baby Ruth bars, Two ice cream ...

On the third day of Squirrel Awareness Month my squirrel love gave to me Three Baby Ruth bars, Two ice cream cones, And an acorn i...

On the second day of Squirrel Awareness Month my squirrel love gave to me Two ice cream cones And an acorn in an oak tree Y...

For day one of Squirrel Awareness Month, I want to share one of my favorite squirrel videos. It's about a big squirrel, a young squi...

This video of a red squirrel hurling itself out of a kitchen window of an apartment in Germany has recently gone viral. The squirrel ap...

The town of Longview, WA is known for its fondness for squirrels. This statue occupies a prominent place in the town... And the Nutty N...

Our friend Winkelhimer Smith the Painting Squirrel has recently raised an important and troubling question about the popular water-skiing s...

Interspecies relationships are always cute. And even more so when one of the species is a squirrel! Two gibbons at the Henry Vilas zoo, Rich...

I want to share two videos I found on YouTube of squirrels hitting the jackpot. In the first clip, a squirrel in a park steals a can of pl...

Meet RoboSquirrel... Hello! He(?) is a robotic California ground squirrel. His skin is a real squirrel skin, and when he is not workin...

Coast and Canyon is a nonprofit wildlife rehab center in Malibu, California. Not only do they do great and important work rescuing and rehab...

A few days ago I posted a photo of a mother squirrel carrying one of her babies at a full run. Here is an excellent video that I found on Yo...

I have posted this video before, but it is one of my favorites and I just wanted to show it again. These badass little South African ground ...

Artist Shyla Mouton rescued Winkelhimer the squirrel as a baby after she was attacked and injured by a cat. After watching her rescuer at wo...

I am disturbed and outraged about the abuse of turkeys revealed by an undercover video here in my own state of North Carolina. The abuse was...

Last night I got into a little argument with a couple of fundamentalist Rick Perry supporters on Twitter. I won't rehash the whole argum...

Here are some squirrels dancing to "Don't Stop 'Till You Get a Nut" by Michael Jackson. My tweep @The_Lil_General wa...

The Cape ground squirrel lives in arid regions of southern Africa, including the Kalahari desert. It is cinnamon-colored on top and gray bel...