The primary diet of the North American red squirrel is less bloodthirsty: the cones from white spruce trees — lots and lots of them. Each squirrel collects around 20,000 spruce cones and stores ...

Red squirrels, which became a national emblem after the publication of Beatrix Potter's book about Squirrel Nutkin, are being displaced by North American gray squirrels.

Red squirrels are entertaining and remarkable little mammals. Fleet-of-foot and extraordinary climbers, their specific habits ...

Haines says people usually view squirrels as pets or pests. But the truth is that North American red squirrels are wild animals that do what they have to do to survive.

Computers To Save Unique Type Of American Red Squirrel Date: April 27, 2006 Source: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Summary: Researchers from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England ...

Though cute and furry on the outside, North American red squirrels have the souls of warriors. Each adult will claim a small section of forest, and fiercely defend its territory against all others.

American red squirrels are small but mighty — about 12 inches long with sharp, curved claws — and they can do some major damage. The animal's ingenuity forces Fischer to spend hours removing ...

Nut-obsessed squirrels scurry around collecting and secreting away food for the future. The amount of acorns they find, though, is not what determines how many baby squirrels there will be in the ...

The American red squirrel is one lucky creature. While the entire human race is cursing its larger cousin, the gray squirrel, old red is getting away with murder, sometimes literally.

For instance, American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) often depend on a small number of pine trees for their food, says Lucia Jacobs, a professor emerita of psychology and neuroscience at ...