Don’t look now, but Eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) are stealing your birdseed, harvesting your hazelnuts and making the neighbor’s cat an object of sport and mockery. This squirrel’s ...

As a prime food source for many predators, Eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) must always be vigilant. Sometimes they even help each other out. A squirrel's long, bushy, grizzled, gray tail ...

Linemen of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. were out on the road last week busily repairing the damage done to telephone cables by one of their most persistent natural enemies: the Sciurus carolinensis, or ...

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Even if you’ve never ventured farther into the forest than an urban park or a college campus, you’re probably familiar with Sciurus carolinensis, the eastern gray squirrel. While it’s easy to identify ...

When the first European settlers came to what is now Indiana, tree squirrels inhabited a near-continuous hardwood forest of walnut, oak, hickory, persimmon, tulip poplar, beech, chestnut and maple.

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