If you’ve ever looked up at a tangled ball of twigs high in a tree and wondered what it was, […] ...

From my kitchen window in Decatur earlier this week, I saw a gray squirrel with a wad of dead leaves and twigs in its mouth scamper up a white oak in the backyard. I assumed the mouthful of material ...

In the starkness of winter, squirrel dreys reveal themselves in the tree canopy. They’ve been there all along — just screened by trees’ leafy crowns for much of the year. Dreys are shaggy masses of ...

When was the last time you thanked a squirrel? On National Squirrel Appreciation Day, the nine different species of squirrels in Michigan are accepting praise from their cozy winter nests. The ...

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction -- References for Chapter One -- ch. Two Physical Characteristics of Tassel-Eared Squirrels -- Tassels -- Physical Characteristics-Pelage and the ...