DEAR JOAN: I am enclosing a couple of photos of a striped squirrel that’s been hanging out in my yard recently. It’s a bit smaller than some of the melanistic squirrels, and its tail is ...

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 ...

S cientists in Switzerland have turned to a rare flying squirrel’s remarkable treetop agility to develop a new generation of ...

Confronted by a hungry rattlesnake, a California ground squirrel chucks pebbles and dirt at its enemy and menacingly waves its tail. Ground squirrel's secret weapon is a warm tail - Los Angeles Times ...

Sri Lanka is home to six species of squirrels in this family, categorized as striped squirrels, giant squirrels, and flying squirrels. The most common striped squirrel is the three-striped palm ...

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 ...

Researchers recently determined that tufted ground squirrel, Rheithrosciurus macrotis, a rarely seen inhabitant of the forests of Borneo, has the bushiest tail, relative to its body, of any mammal ...

The Eastern gray squirrel's tail tells all. By Carol Coogan Oct 30, 2015. As a prime food source for many predators, Eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) must always be vigilant.

To find out if the tails of the squirrels—which, as their name suggests, are scaly, not fluffy like those found in Europe and the Americas—assist in climbing the smooth-barked trees where they ...

When a squirrel is at the feeder, it often curls its tail up over its back. The tail drops back down when the squirrel hops away but will stay up the whole time it is eating.