Survival of the fittest can be a hard nut to crack, but it appears that North American red squirrels have it all figured out. Some squirrels mate like rabbits during seasons of abundance — bolstering ...

While it might not feel like it, spring is on the way as evidenced by an increase in calls for baby animal nests found in Toronto homes. A Toronto company, Gates Wildlife Control, is starting to get ...

Michael Karloff heard chirping from around his furnace and was shocked to find a baby squirrel, not a rat or bird, inside his old chimney. He nursed it, with information he found online, for roughly ...

I have a confession: I don’t understand the hate people have for squirrels. I don’t understand the eagerness for building “squirrel-proof” bird feeders and such. Yes, squirrels can be greedy little ...

Having a stressed-out mom may give baby squirrels a competitive edge, a new study suggests. Red squirrels who were stressed out during pregnancy had babies that out-competed their peers by growing ...

When red squirrel mothers in the Yukon detect a lot of other red squirrels in their neighborhood they raise larger babies that will have a better chance of securing a territory and surviving the ...

When asked what initially hooked our staff into a career in wildlife and what keeps our volunteers returning year after year, the answer is often feeding baby squirrels. For many of us, the first time ...

Coming across a baby squirrel alone in the wild or even in your backyard can stir up a strong desire to help. These little creatures appear helpless, especially when they are very young. But feeding a ...

In a nondescript warehouse in Washington, D.C., wedged between a community garden and the Metro train tracks, more than a dozen baby squirrels fill cages in an uncomfortably warm room. A noise machine ...