North Carolina chose the gray squirrel as its state mammal because it is widespread, adaptable, and familiar to residents across the state. Schoolchildren helped influence the decision in 1969, ...

Squirrels and possums apparently think being king of the road means piling up the most road-kills for your species. Although possums ordinarily win the I-got-hit-by-a-big-truck award, squirrels seem ...

My six-year-old daughter jumped up and down with excitement, her eyes sparkling as she motioned toward the gray squirrel lying at the base of a cedar tree. “I got it! I got my first squirrel,” she ...

The Western gray squirrel is the largest tree squirrel in the state. It’s being threatened by wildfires and habitat fragmentation. Courtesy of Jennifer Becar with the Washington Department of Fish and ...

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Gray squirrels in the U.K. may soon be given oral birth control medication in an attempt to keep the invasive species at bay, as part of a government plan. Gray squirrels, the common bushy-tailed ...

Grey squirrels across Britain are being marked with a harmless pink dye as part of a groundbreaking fertility control trial – ...

The Environment Department (Defra) also said that with current control methods often labelled “ineffective” and amid public ...

Shooters will be at the heart of a new Government drive to control grey squirrels, which are costing England and Wales’ woodlands £37 million a year. Defra’s Grey Squirrel Policy Statement, published ...

For many years, we’ve been finding black walnut bits on the benches surrounding our campfire circle. I know where the walnuts come from and I know gray squirrels are eating them. Why squirrels like to ...

Grey squirrels, or Eastern grey squirrels, primarily live in the Eastern half of the U.S. and southern Canada. There is also a healthy population in the U.K., where they were imported in the 19th ...