You know that moment when you’re minding your own business… and a squirrel launches itself across two branches like it’s ...

It’s easy to have a love-hate opinion of squirrels. These furry scamps are the clowns of our natural world and aside from entertaining antics, have a lot to offer in our modern urban and suburban ...

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A black-morph eastern gray squirrel photographed in central Wisconsin. Photo by Stan Tekiela Even the most ordinary critters in nature have behaviors and characteristics that I find fascinating — and ...

Squirrels: Are they just rats with better PR? Be advised that this is not safe reading material for squirrel lovers, or even squirrel apologists. In my opinion, squirrels are worse than rats—smarter, ...

A noisy road can sometimes make city squirrels feel safer from hawks. A new study on urban grey squirrels reports that steady traffic sound lowered their caution near roads. The research, conducted in ...

The mystery of that infamous Chicago Rat Hole on the sidewalk may be solved as a study in Biology Letters concludes it was actually a squirrel. Credit: ABC7. About 20 to 30 years ago, a small animal ...

Chicago — the city of deep-dish pizza, world-class museums, the Bean and Sears (Willis) Tower — has had a new, unusual claim to fame: the Roscoe Village Rat Hole. However, a recent study found the ...

For nearly two years, Chicagoans and tourists have treated a small imprint in a Roscoe Village sidewalk like a sacred site. The so-called “Chicago Rat Hole,” which has existed for 20-30 years before ...