Squirrel season runs through the end of February, and hunting squirrels is one of the bestways there is to introduce a youngster to the outdoors. It may be more common these days for deer or ...

After watching squirrels in California for 12 years, a team of scientists has seen them actively hunt down and kill small rodents this past summer. California ground squirrels are known to mostly ...

A UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They’re hunting like carnivores, taking down and consuming other, smaller rodents. As part of an ongoing 12-year study of ...

A recently released study changes what scientists thought they knew about squirrel behavior after the adorable critters were seen hunting voles. While squirrels are traditionally thought to be ...

The researchers said their study, published Wednesday in the Journal of Ethology, marked the first widespread observation of squirrels hunting another mammal and showed that squirrels don’t only ...

Scientists have for the first time ever found “shocking” evidence of carnivorous behaviour in squirrels — hunting and eating voles in California. Ground squirrels are often seen stuffing ...

They found that more than 42 per cent of the interactions involved active hunting of the small rodents by ground squirrels. “This was shocking,” Jennifer E Smith, an associate professor of bio ...

It was earlier believed that the squirrels were herbivorous and ate seeds, acorns, fruits, and nuts. “This is incredibly exciting, because this is the first time for this species that we’ve documented ...

California ground squirrels hunt, kill and eat voles, reveals a new study documenting evidence of widespread carnivorous behavior among squirrels. A ground squirrel with cheeks stuffed with nuts ...