I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).

The gray squirrel’s appearance differs seasonally. The yellowish brown summer coat becomes thicker and gray in winter, the pelage of some individuals strikingly silver-gray. Underparts and eye-rings ...

I was recently asked by a local TV news station to answer a question about how squirrels find their buried nuts. This is a great example of super cool things that go on in nature that most people ...

In 2003 former Tuskegee Airman and pioneering Black journalist Chuck Stone wrote “Squizzy the Black Squirrel,” about a Philadelphia boy who bonds with a black squirrel in Fairmount Park. Squizzy was ...

This decline is partly due to the superior adaptability of the greys (Sciurus carolinensis). Red squirrels seldom do much harm, though they can damage trees. The usually charming grey squirrel can ...