(Another way to say this is that its tail is 130 percent the mass of the rest of its body.) The closest competitors are ring-tailed cats, common striped possums and squirrel gliders, whose tails ...

Its closest competitors in the “bushiest tail” category are ring-tailed cats, striped possums and squirrel gliders, though in each case these animals’ fluffy appendages are ...

Squirrels, with their twitching noses, bushy tails, and energetic movements, are a common sight across many parts of the world. They are agile creatures that adapt well to diverse environments ...

While their antics are entertaining, squirrels can cause a lot of damage when they start digging up potted plants. Common tree squirrels with their big bushy tails and striped ground squirrels ...

The Southeast Asian striped squirrel (T. barbei) has a brighter belly and a paler tail than Himalayan striped squirrels (T. mcclellandii). In addition to pelt coloration, ...

Red squirrels are smaller, but they, like other squirrel species, have distinctly bushy tails. Fox squirrels—North America’s largest squirrel species, with several known subspecies—clock in ...

It has a white belly, a bushy tail and a white stripe on its side. A round-tailed ground squirrel looks like a small prairie dog, which it isn't. A few years ago I wrote that we don't have prairie ...

It also has a bushy tail like the gray squirrel but differs with an orange-brown coat and orange underparts. Also, in the 1920s the eastern gray squirrel was introduced to Balboa Park but did not ...

Three-dimensional scanned portions of Pel's scaly-tailed squirrel. Credit: Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0937 ...